Abstract
Nowadays, the internal network communication of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) usually takes place in unencrypted form. This, however, seems to be bound to change in the future: as we write, encryption of network traffic is seriously being considered as a standard for future ICS. In this paper we take a critical look at the pro's and con's of traffic encryption in ICS. We come to the conclusion that encrypting this kind of network traffic may actually result in a reduction of the security and overall safety. As such, sensible versus non-sensible use of encryption needs to be carefully considered both in developing ICS standards and systems..
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | IEEE SmartGridCom : Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, 23-26 October 2017, Dresden, Germany |
| Place of Publication | Brussels |
| Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
| Pages | 289-294 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-5386-0943-9 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-5386-2401-2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 17 Apr 2018 |
| Event | 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications - Dresden, Germany Duration: 23 Oct 2017 → 26 Oct 2017 |
Conference
| Conference | 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications |
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| Abbreviated title | SmartGridCom |
| Country/Territory | Germany |
| City | Dresden |
| Period | 23/10/17 → 26/10/17 |