Network Services - ICS/SCADA

Question 1

Operational Technology (OT)

Answer 1

Communications network designed to implement an ICS. Technology that interacts with the real world. (machines that can open physical valves in the real world)

Question 2

Industrial Control System

Answer 2

Provides the mechanisms for workflow and process automation by controlling machinery using embedded devices. Used for power suppliers, water suppliers, ect. . Multiple ICSs can create a distributed control system (DCS). Itys essentially just a network that manages embedded devices.

Question 3

FIeldbus

Answer 3

Digital serial data communication protocol used in OT networks to link different PLCs

Question 4

Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)

Answer 4

Type of digital computer used in industrial settings that enables automation and assembly lines, autonomous field operations,, robotics, and other applications

Question 5

Human machine Interface (HMI)

Answer 5

Can be a local control panel or Software that runs on a computer

Question 6

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)

Answer 6

Type of ICS used to manage large scale multi-site devices and equipment in a geographic region from a host computer

Question 7

Quick cheat sheet!

Answer 7

ICS = Single plant/system
DCS = Small connection of the ICS system in a single area
SCADA = Different ICS and DCS plants in a wide area network