Agenda

Opening remarks from the Chair

Andrew West, SCADA Communication Consultant & Chair, DNP Technical Committee

Security strategy with respect to controls, challenges and why people are the key

• Introduction to CERN, LHC and experiments
• CERN security footprint
• Security operations (security incidents and headaches)
• Merger between office security, computer centre security and control system security

Dr Stefan Leuders, Head of Computer Security, CERN
At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the worlds largest and most complex scientific instruments, SCADA controlled particle accelerators and detectors are used to study the basic constituents of matter the fundamental particles.

Improving procurement practices and creating procurement language with security as a basis

• Public / private collaboration on vulnerability releases
• Integrating security into SCADA products Improving security from PLU to Master Station
• Procurement language Ensuring vendors are tasked to prove security prior to contract completion
• Reducing total cost of ownership
• Supply Chain/Procurement Chain Performing assessments that make sure the SCADA system (or parts of it) are not vulnerable or infected upon delivery

Mark Fabro, President & Chief Security Scientist, Lofty Perch

Morning tea

Vulnerability trends and disclosure of known vulnerabilities to maintain and improve the security and reliability of utility services

• Cyber threat landscape from a national CERT perspective
• Vulnerability disclosure trends in control systems products
• Managing the cyber threat and mitigating vulnerabilities in control systems

Jason Smith, Assistant Director (Technical) CERT Australia, Attorney Generals Department

How cyber terror and cyber espionage will change the face of SCADA in the coming decade

• How the rise of semi-military aligned contractors in nations such as China is changing the interactions within cybercriminal organisations and the on-flow effect on critical systems
• The rise of state funded terror groups and the long term impact on critical systems
• New technologies such as APTs (including Stuxnet and its successors)
• What you need to do to ensure your systems have not already been infiltrated

Dr Craig S Wright, Vice President, Australia Asia Pacific, Global Institute for Cybersecurity & Research

The convergence of industrial control systems and the corporate network how to keep it available and also secure

• The corporate network and the internet - Balancing requirements for information against the threat landscape
• Best practice ICT controls Defining those which should be applied and those which cannot meet continuous availability and the highest levels of data integrity
• Using ICT mitigation strategies to defend SCADA networks
• Different approaches to achieve desired outcomes

Grae Meyer-Gleaves, Queensland & Northern Territory Regional Director, Fortinet

Lunch

Smart grid smart city project and implications for future SCADA

• Integrating additional communication, sensing and metering into SCADA systems for the smart grid
• Delivering visibility and tighter control - Ability to monitor events at a granular level
• Interoperability to support all electric devices - Transformers, feeders, switches, capacitor banks, meters, inverters
• Self-healing networks and automated control
• The growing penetration of renewable energy and implications for SCADA operations and controls

Jamal Cheema, Manager Project Delivery, Ausgrid

Communication networks for smart power & water grids

• Smart grid communication architecture and international standards such as IEEE2030
• Deployment of heterogeneous network architecture including 4G standards and smart grid traffic models
• M2M (Machine to Machine) communication frame work for the utility sector

Jamil Khan, Associate Professor, School of Elect Engineering and Computer Science, University of Newcastle

Afternoon tea

Virtualisation Achieving zero down time, high availability and server consolidation

• Defining the key reasons for virtualisation Government mandate, backup, rapid recovery, patch management, server imaging to counter hacking attempts
• Fault tolerance Server failure, software failure, redundancy of servers, data protection, quick recovery, zero downtime
• Timekeeping, licensing
• Test management Isolating new concepts or software and new developments within the virtual environment
  

CASE STUDY

Remote operations and monitoring of Origin Power Station and managing security for remote access within the business

• Exploring how Origin established remote operation for Uranquinty Power Station from a traders desk: What can we learn from this achievement
• Analysing the security measures that were considered and implemented to ensure security of SCADA system
• Usage of handheld smart devices and security tokens to access power plant SCADA systems
• Stepping through security threats and outlining the benefits of a centralised remote operation of various power stations as business grows
• Reviewing SCADA system to mitigate risks from increased cyber security threats

Ravi Malik, Instrumentation & Control Lead, Origin Energy

Networking drinks

Official Conference Dinner

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Water Industry Telemetry Standards (WITS) DNP3 definitions

• Intoduction to the WITS - Protocol Standards Association
• The WITS standard
• Overview of DNP3 functions specific to WITS
• Reviewing current status, challenges and areas for improvements

Jim Baker, Principal SCADA Engineer, Water Corporation of Western Australia

Developing a smart substation IEC 61850 strategy Delivering integrated substation automation and protection systems

• Establishing project goals, intended outcomes and project timelines
• Considerations for a network architecture supporting both automation and protection requirements
• Impacts of IEC61850 on substation automation scheme architecture
• Engineering challenges in multivendor IEC61850 implementations
• Organisational impacts with engineering, operations and maintenance
• Lessons learned from the IEC 61850 Substation project at East Richmond

James Cole, SCADA & Communications Manager, Endeavour Energy

Morning tea

Adapting to a changing utility future

• Enabling AMI based communication solutions
• SCADA centric automation analytics (focus on self-healing networks and reducing bushfire risk)
• Data integration and leverage for a smarter network and empowered customers
• Integrating new distributed energy resources

John Theunissen, Director Smart Networks, Networks Strategy and Development Division, SP AusNet

Alarm Management On the road to a sustainable future

• The Issues: Information overload for operators, production losses and process inefficiencies, knowledge drain of personnel, accident cost due to litigation, fines, loss of public support
• Benchmarking using industry standards and measures
• Standards and best in class KPI targets
• The Journey: Mapping out the Journey given the objectives, budget, resource availability, timeframe
• Implementing a continuous improvement lifecycle, including analysis tools, procedures, philosophies and standards
• Getting Started: Choosing the first steps

Alexandra Armitage, Business Consultant, Schneider Electric

CASE STUDY: ALARM MANAGEMENT

RailCorps Rail Management Centre

Over one million rail journeys occur on the Railcorp network each day. This session will look at the design and operation of the management centre.

• Rail management centre master control station to monitor Railcorps network
• Enhancing operations through diagrammatic representation of network capacity and utilisation
• Visual alarm management to deliver a more efficient transport system

Tony Eid, Acting Chief Operating Officer, Railcorp

Lunch

Aggregating and merging disparate SCADA systems Deployment of SCADA for aggregating organisations

• Overcoming legacy systems
• Technology Identifying system capabilities and limitations
• Operational issues - Increasing operational efficiencies through standardisation
• Data management Managing and interpreting the data for improved SCADA and business operations

David Bowerman, Manager Electrical and SCADA Engineering, Hunter Water Australia

Operational Data Storage Managing Data Quantity / Quality

• Analysis, interpretation and integration of SCADA data for SCADA operations
• Operational data storage
• Managing data quantity / quality
• Reporting the data for business management and improvement purposes
• Integration with operational systems to highlight anomolies

PANEL

Designing robust and resilient communications networks

• Selecting communications technologies Analysing cost versus efficiency, terrain versus distance
• Communications High bandwidth communications for extreme and remote locations
• Over engineering communications to allow for extreme weather events
• Improving SCADA system performance by limiting communications data to only absolutely necessary information

Dale Stacey, Director, SAT

Michael Read, Consultant, 37South

Ron Southworth, Director Australian Operations, Lofty Perch

Communications network field test validation and optimisation

• Pre emptive testing and modelling pre design (eg impartial analysis of available 3G networks)
• Validation RF, UHF and 3G drive testing networks for signal strength
• Communications network upgrades - Verifying network performance post deployment
• Performance measurement, capacity and network utilisation

Dale Stacey, Director, SAT

Closing remarks from the Chair