Development of an Open-Source Testbed Based on the Modbus Protocol for Cybersecurity Analysis of Nuclear Power Plants

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作者
de Brito, Israel Barbosa [1 ]
de Sousa Jr, Rafael T. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Brasilia UnB, Elect Engn Dept ENE, BR-70910900 Brasilia, DF, Brazil
来源
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL | 2022年 / 12卷 / 15期
关键词
cybersecurity; nuclear power plants; Asherah Nuclear Power Plant Simulator; GNS3; PLC; OpenPLC; SCADA; ScadaBR; Modbus; ModRSsim2; industrial control systems (ICS);
D O I
10.3390/app12157942
中图分类号
O6 [化学];
学科分类号
0703 ;
摘要
The possibility of cyber-attacks against critical infrastructure, and in particular nuclear power plants, has prompted several efforts by academia. Many of these works aim to capture the vulnerabilities of the industrial control systems used in these plants through computer simulations and hardware in the loop configurations. However, general results in this area are limited by the cost and diversity of existing commercial equipment and protocols, as well as by the inherent complexity of the nuclear plants. In this context, this work introduces a testbed for the study of cyber-attacks against a realistic simulation of a nuclear power plant. Our approach consists in surveying issues regarding realistic simulations of nuclear power plants and to design and experimentally validate a software testbed for the controlled analysis of cyberattacks against the simulated nuclear plant. The proposal integrates a simulated Modbus/TCP network environment containing basic industrial control elements implemented with open-source software components. We validate the proposed testbed architecture by performing and analyzing a representative cyberattack in the developed environment, thus showing the principles for the analysis of other possible cybernetic attacks.
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