A taxonomy of attacks on the DNP3 protocol

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 311, Issue , 2009, Pages 67-81

  East, Samuel ^a   Butts, Jonathan ^a   Papa, Mauricio ^a   Shenoi, Sujeet ^a  

^a The University of Tulsa Tulsa   (United States)

Author keywords

Attack taxonomy; Attacks; Distributed network protocol (DNP3)

Indexed keywords

ATTACKS; CONTROL CENTER; DISTRIBUTED NETWORK PROTOCOLS; INDUSTRIAL CONTROL APPLICATIONS; MITIGATION STRATEGY; OPERATIONAL IMPACTS; PROCESS AWARENESS; SCADA PROTOCOLS;

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

TAXONOMIES;

EID: 84891752381     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04798-5_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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