Final Report and Recommendations by the Council

Citation
NIAC, Convergence of Physical and Cyber Technologies and Related Security Management Challenges Working Group, Final Report and Recommendations by the Council (Jan. 16, 2007) (full-text).

Overview
The Working Group focused its efforts on identifying areas of potential vulnerability in Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and process control system environments and on developing policy recommendations that would enable the effective public-private partnerships necessary to address the cyber threat and to improve the infrastructure protection profile of these critical infrastructure systems.

This study examined existing efforts to benchmark this problem and considered numerous available models of infrastructure protection. The study's preliminary findings highlighted the changing environment brought about by the convergence of control systems and IT systems, leading the NIAC to identify ways that current security practices can be strengthened through policy recommendations.