National Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)

The National Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Test Bed is a DOE Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) -sponsored resource to help secure our nation’s energy control systems. It combines state-of-the-art operational system testing facilities with research, development, and training to discover and address critical security vulnerabilities and threats to the energy sector. Sandia R&D efforts range from autonomous agent systems applied to SCADA, to cryptographic security, system assessment, and red-team activities. Sandia is able to complement its communication and control capabilities with actual generation and load facilities for distributed energy resources.

America’s energy infrastructure doesn’t stop at its borders. A significant portion of the nation’s liquid hydrocarbon fuels is imported from areas of the world subject to rapid social and political upheaval. This upheaval can  jeopardize key facilities that process these fuels. This program area includes work addressing the protection of key  fuel processing facilities and their supporting infrastructure by providing evaluation, physical protection  training, and expert advice to the owners and operators of these international facilities.

SCADA/Cyber Security Analysis of Globally Strategic Energy Facilities

As America’s infrastructures have become more complex and interconnected, their operation and control has become more complicated. Automated control systems, called SCADAs (supervisory control and data acquisition systems), networked  across the internet have been widely deployed to operate these infrastructures. These systems, and the internet over which  they handle information, are an identified security vulnerability  for the infrastructures they control. The Infrastructure Security Program Area works with several government agencies in the area  of cybersecurity to ensure the integrity and availability of the nation’s cyber  infrastructure.

The performance of the nation’s infrastructure is an essential component of the nation’s economic prosperity. Through its programs and projects, the Infrastructure Security Program Area seeks to endow the infrastructure  with five characteristics: security, reliability, safety, sustainability, and cost effectiveness.

How can Sandia help you? email us: scada@sandia.gov