The use of cyber security standards can greatly assist in the protection of process control systems by providing guidelines and requirements for the implementation of computer-controlled systems. These standards are most effective when the engineers and operators, using the standards, understand what each standard addresses. This paper provides an overview of several standards that deal with the cyber security of process measurements and control systems.
With the rapid development of the cloud computing service, utilizing traditional access control models was difficult to meet the complex requirements of data protection in cloud environment. In cloud environment, the definition of data and its protection are gradually varied when contents shifting from one virtual machine to another; in these new scenarios, the multi-tenancy pattern has been taken as a core attribute. For this reason, many users need to change their roles according to different situations; certifications has impact much more complicated challenges in cloud environment while access control was suitable for the static status but no longer for the changing situation. In this paper, a new usage control protocol model-multi-UCON (MUCON) based on usage control (UCON), combined with encryption technology and the digital watermarking technology, is proposed with the characteristics of flexible accrediting, feature binding, and off-line controlling. The analysis and simulation experiments indicate that the proposed protocol model is secure, reliable, and easy to be implemented, which can be deployed in cloud computing environments for data protection.
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