Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Abdelwahed, Sherif

Committee Member

Dampier, David A.

Committee Member

Morris, Thomas H.

Date of Degree

8-12-2016

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

James Worth Bagley College of Engineering

Department

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Abstract

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) play a critical part in our world’s economy, supply chain and critical infrastructure. Securing the various types of ICS is of the utmost importance and has been a focus of much research for the last several years. At the heart of many defense in depth strategies is the signature based intrusion detection system (IDS). The signatures that define an IDS determine the effectiveness of the system. Existing methods for IDS signature creation do not leverage the information contained within the PLC ladder logic file. The ladder logic file is a rich source of information about the PLC control system. This thesis describes a method for parsing PLC ladder logic to extract address register information, data types and usage that can be used to better define the normal operation of the control system which will allow for rules to be created to detect abnormal activity.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/19960

Comments

industrial control system security||intrusion detection system||signature based||ids||ladder logic

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