Forensic Readiness for SCADA/ICS Incident Response

Peter Eden; Andrew Blyth; Pete Burnap; Yulia Cherdantseva; Kevin Jones; Hugh Soulsby; Kristan Stoddart

doi:10.14236/ewic/ICS2016.16

Forensic Readiness for SCADA/ICS Incident Response

Peter Eden, Andrew Blyth, Pete Burnap, Yulia Cherdantseva, Kevin Jones, Hugh Soulsby, Kristan Stoddart

Computing, Cybersecurity, Mathematics and Informatics Research and Innovation Group

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Abstract

The actions carried out following any cyber-attack are vital in limiting damage, regaining control and determining the cause and those responsible. Within SCADA and ICS environments there is certainly no exception. Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) relies heavily on SCADA systems to monitor and control critical processes. Many of these systems span huge geographical areas and contain thousands of individual devices, across an array of asset types. When an incident occurs, those assets contain forensic artefacts, which can be thought of as any data that provides explanation to the current state of the SCADA system.
Knowing what devices exist within the network and the tools and methods to retrieve data from them are some of the biggest challenges for incident response within CNI. This paper aims to identify those assets and their forensic value whilst providing the tools needed to perform data acquisition in a forensically sound
manner. It will also discuss the key stages in which the incident response process can be managed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research 2016
Place of Publication	Swindon, UK
Publisher	BCS Learning Development Ltd.
Pages	1-9
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	978-1-78017-3573
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/ICS2016.16
Publication status	Published - Aug 2016
Event	4th International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research 2016 - Queen's University Belfast , Belfast, United Kingdom Duration: 23 Aug 2016 → 25 Aug 2016 Conference number: 4th

Publication series

Name	ICS-CSR '16
Publisher	BCS Learning Development Ltd.

Conference

Conference	4th International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research 2016
Abbreviated title	ICS-CSR 2016
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Belfast
Period	23/08/16 → 25/08/16

Keywords

SCADA
SCADA forensics
critical infrastructure
digital forensics
incident response

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Eden, P, Blyth, A, Burnap, P, Cherdantseva, Y, Jones, K, Soulsby, H & Stoddart, K 2016, Forensic Readiness for SCADA/ICS Incident Response. in Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research 2016. ICS-CSR '16, BCS Learning Development Ltd., Swindon, UK, pp. 1-9, 4th International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research 2016, Belfast, United Kingdom, 23/08/16. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/ICS2016.16

Forensic Readiness for SCADA/ICS Incident Response. / Eden, Peter; Blyth, Andrew; Burnap, Pete et al.
Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research 2016. Swindon, UK: BCS Learning Development Ltd., 2016. p. 1-9 (ICS-CSR '16).

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