SCADA - Threats People Overlook

SCADA systems are the smart component that governs most of critical infrastructure and their malfunction reflects immediately on our everyday lives.



Initially designed to function reliably and not to be secure, their exposure to public networks is itself a vulnerability and exposes them to Cyber Attacks.



This research outlines how SCADA devices are exposed to Internet, both in quantity and quality. It provides an estimation of worldwide exposure and compares the data of the two previously chosen countries in 2013: Italy and Switzerland.



As exposure alone would not translate into Risk without active attackers, a honeypot has been deployed to mimic an ICS device. Thousands of probes and exploit attempts have been recorded demonstrating that such risk scenario is more valid than ever. https://twitter.com/salvetti_alex