Combined Intrusion Detection System to deal with Cyber- Attacks in Industrial Control Systems with a Dedicated Network
Subject Areas :
Industry - Automation
Mohammad Safari
1
(Department of Computer Engineering- Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran)
Elham Parvinnia
2
(Department of Computer Engineering- Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran)
Alireza Keshavarz Haddad
3
(School of Electrical and Computer Engineering- Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran)
Received: 2021-06-28
Accepted : 2021-09-08
Published : 2021-08-23
Keywords:
industrial control system,
semantic and stealthy attacks,
industrial intrusion detection system,
behavioral intrusion detection system,
Abstract :
Most control systems use a dedicated communication network with specific protocols. Intrusion detection systems developed based on network traffic with standard protocols, or existing datasets can not detect significant threats on these control systems. New sophisticated malicious codes usually attacked these systems by sending known and understandable commands to the control systems and ultimately sabotaging the physical process. These attacks do not alter network traffic, so they are not detectable with standard network-based intrusion detection systems. In this paper, we proposed an innovative combined method for identifying different types of attacks on control systems with a dedicated network. We have provided a combination of methods for detecting semantic or stealth attacks and identifying attacks that affect the traffic of the control system network. For the first time in practice, the effect of common types of attacks on a control system with a specific network has been investigated, and the rules for detecting these attacks have been obtained. Experimental results in this study show that the extracted rules identify 100% of the already known attacks. The proposed new approach, based on identifying the control system commands from the extracted network records, also thoroughly detects semantic attacks. The process data behavioral method used in this study can detect about 99% of semantic attacks using classification algorithms base on Data set which is created in this study.
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Vnet/IP Built In Security, Technical Information, Doc No:TI30A10A20-01E, 2011, Yokogawa Corporation.
