SCADA system testbed for cybersecurity research using machine learning approach
Author | Teixeira M.A. |
Author | Salman T. |
Author | Zolanvari M. |
Author | Jain R. |
Author | Meskin N. |
Author | Samaka M. |
Available date | 2020-03-18T08:10:07Z |
Publication Date | 2018 |
Publication Name | Future Internet |
Resource | Scopus |
ISSN | 19995903 |
Abstract | This paper presents the development of a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system testbed used for cybersecurity research. The testbed consists of a water storage tank's control system, which is a stage in the process of water treatment and distribution. Sophisticated cyber-attacks were conducted against the testbed. During the attacks, the network traffic was captured, and features were extracted from the traffic to build a dataset for training and testing different machine learning algorithms. Five traditional machine learning algorithms were trained to detect the attacks: Random Forest, Decision Tree, Logistic Regression, Na?ve Bayes and KNN. Then, the trained machine learning models were built and deployed in the network, where new tests were made using online network traffic. The performance obtained during the training and testing of the machine learning models was compared to the performance obtained during the online deployment of these models in the network. The results show the efficiency of the machine learning models in detecting the attacks in real time. The testbed provides a good understanding of the effects and consequences of attacks on real SCADA environments. ? 2018 by the authors. |
Sponsor | Funding: This work has been supported under the grant ID NPRP 10-901-2-370 funded by the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) and grant #2017/01055-4 S?o Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). |
Language | en |
Publisher | MDPI AG |
Subject | Cybersecurity Machine learning Network security SCADA system |
Type | Article |
Issue Number | 8 |
Volume Number | 10 |
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