Secure Communications for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems

控制系统对国家的关键基础设施至关重要。他们监督和指挥能源分配、水管理、电信和运输行业中使用的远程设备。从历史上看，安全并不是控制系统通信设计中的一个问题，这导致了它们目前的脆弱状态。该项目将确定控制系统技术的通信安全要求，并提出适当的安全通信方案。将开发新的密码协议和分析模型，以说明控制系统通信的危害性和操作特性。这些结果对澳大利亚的关键基础设施保护具有重要的潜在价值。

Control systems are crucial to the nation's critical infrastructure. They supervise and command the remote devices used in the energy distribution, water management, telecommunications, and transport industries. Historically, security has not been a concern in the design of control systems communications, which has resulted in their current vulnerable state. This project will establish the communications security requirements of control systems technologies and propose suitable secure communications schemes. New cryptographic protocols and analytic models will be developed to account for the criticality and operational peculiarities of control systems communications. These results are of significant potential value to Australia's critical infrastructure protection.