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Beyond SCADA
National Coordination Office:
Networking and Information Technology Research and Development
2006 National Meeting
Beyond SCADA: Networked Embedded Control for
Cyber Physical Systems
November 8 & 9, 2006 ~ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sponsoring Federal Agencies:
Webpage hosted
by Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technologies, TRUST for NITRD
Facilitated and Organized by
The nation's critical physical infrastructure depends crucially on
SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) and DCS (Digital
Control Systems). Power networks, oil, gas, and water networks,
chemical process control, transportation networks, the heating,
ventilation and air conditioning systems of buildings depend
critically on the sensing, monitoring, gathering, and control of
information from distributed sensing devices. It is clear that these
devices have been deployed in ad-hoc fashion in our infrastructures
and are widely used in a number of different kinds of applications
including economic load dispatch, security monitoring, regulation of
climate and other such functions. As our use of ubiquitous computing
and communication devices has increased, we have gradually built
greater functionality into our SCADA/DCS systems. The by-product of
these technological advances has been a lack of planned deployment of
what we may refer to as high confidence devices and software. These
are Devices and Networked Systems that are:
- Correct by construction and which can be reprogrammed on the fly
based on the functionality that is expected of them.
- Fault tolerant, such that they are able to resist catastrophic
failure under certain kinds of faults and mis-configurations and are
able to reconfigure themselves to degrade gracefully under faulty
conditions.
- Resistant to information attack, such that they have
defense-in-depth features which allow them to resist attack by
determined hackers, hacktivisits, and possibly even nation-states.
Beyond SCADA: Cyber Physical Systems Meeting (HCSS-NEC4CPS) was held on
November 8 & 9, 2006 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This meeting was sponsored
by the National Information Technology Research
and Development (NITRD) Program's
High Confidence Systems and Software (HCSS) Coordinating Group (CG),
the National Science Foundation, the National
Institute of Standards and Technology, and the National
Security Agency. This series of meetings facilitated the roadmapping
process for the research agenda in the area of Networked Embedded Control
Systems. This meeting was organized by Carnegie
Mellon University and University of
California, Berkeley.
Presentations
"National Workshop on Beyond SCADA: Networked Embedded Control for Cyber-Physical Systems (NEC4CPS): Research Strategies and Roadmap," by
Bruce Krogh, Marija Ilic, and S. Shankar Sastry. (7/16/2007)
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