@article{418ba9efddef426082e086a4bf25bc48,
title = "SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems: Vulnerability assessment and security recommendations",
author = "Darshana Upadhyay and Srinivas Sampalli",
note = "Funding Information: The authors thank the anonymous reviewers and the Editor for their valuable comments and suggestions that have improved the quality of the paper. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and industry partners Cistel Technology Inc. and Technologies Sanstream, through a Collaborative Research Grant. Darshana Upadhyay is currently a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University. She holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India, where she also served as a lecturer before moving to Canada to pursue her PhD degree. Darshana's research is in the areas of security protocols, embedded systems, hardware design, algorithm conceptualization. For her Masters thesis, she has completed an novel project in the area of linear feedback shift register design for secure systems. She is the co-recipient of the Indo-Shastri research grant in the area of wireless security and intrusion detection systems. Srinivas Sampalli holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Bangalore University and a Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bangalore, India, and is currently a Professor and 3M National Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University. He has led numerous industry-driven research projects on Internet of Things, wireless security, vulnerability analysis, intrusion detection and prevention, and applications of emerging wireless technologies in healthcare. He currently supervises 5 Ph.D. and 10 Masters students in his EMerging WIreless Technologies (MYTech) lab and has supervised nearly 150 graduate students in his career. Dr. Sampalli's primary joy is in inspiring and motivating students with his enthusiastic teaching. Dr. Sampalli has received the Dalhousie Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence award, the Dalhousie Alumni Association Teaching award, the Association of Atlantic Universities{\textquoteright} Distinguished Teacher Award, a teaching award instituted in his name by the students within his Faculty, and the 3M National Teaching Fellowship, Canada's most prestigious teaching acknowledgement. Since September 2016, he holds the honorary position of the Vice President (Canada), of the International Federation of National Teaching Fellows (IFNTF), a consortium of national teaching award winners from around the world. Funding Information: The authors thank the anonymous reviewers and the Editor for their valuable comments and suggestions that have improved the quality of the paper. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and industry partners Cistel Technology Inc. and Technologies Sanstream, through a Collaborative Research Grant. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019",
year = "2020",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1016/j.cose.2019.101666",
language = "English",
volume = "89",
journal = "Computers and Security",
issn = "0167-4048",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
}