Western DataCom Secure SCADA Applications

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition, a computer system for gathering

and analyzing real time data. SCADA systems are used to monitor and
contro l a plant or equipment in industries such as telecommunications, water
and waste control, energy, oil and gas refining and transportation. A SCADA
system gathers information, such as where a leak on a pipeline has occurred,
transfers the information back to a central site, alerting the home station
that the leak has occurred, carrying out necessary analysis and control, such
as determining if the leak is critical, and displaying the information in a
logical and organized fashion. SCADA systems can be relatively simple, such
as one that monitors environmental conditions of a small office building, or
incredibly complex, such as a system that monitors all the activity in a
nuclear power plant or the activity of a municipal water system.

SCADA systems were first used in the 1960s and are now coming under
scrutiny from security perspective. In the post 9/11 era the Department of
Homeland Defense has specified concern over unauthorized access to these
sensitive legacy systems. Breaches in access have already been noted and
will continue to increase unless necessary security precautions are taken.

Western DataCom has a cost effective solution for securing these portals
using existing PSTN lines or existing IP connectivity.

PSTN

The CryptoCom 2000 Secure Modem and LineGuard 9000 Remote Port
Monitor are an ideal solution designed to meet the most stringent security
requirements. Taking advantage of a common infrastructure, the public
switched telephone network, the CryptoCom 2000 uses 168-bit Triple DES to
secure communications over pots (plain old telephone system) lines. This
Secure Out-of-Band communications method requires no changes to
existing software applications a simple replacement of existing clear text
modems solves the problem.
IP or Frame Networks

Western DataCom also has a solution available for SCADA networks that
utilize an IP based network infrastructure. The IPE-2M and IPE-10M are
PC/104 IPsec encryptors that utilize either Triple DES or AES encryption to
build secure tunnels for IP communications over any number of wide area
network connections (Frame Relay, Wireless or fixed land line).

LAN

LAN IPE-2M

SCADA
WAN System
IPE-2M LAN
SCADA
Host

IPE-2M

SCADA
System

For more information regarding your SCADA application please contact

Western DataCom at 800-262-3311 or visit http://www.western-data.com.