Research Article

Compliance-Driven Cybersecurity Planning Based on Formalized Attack Patterns for Instrumentation and Control Systems of Nuclear Power Plants

Table 1

Attack pattern parameters for the instrumentation and control (I&C) system of a nuclear power plant (NPP).

ElementItems

Attack surfaceEEUser(U), system(S), device(D)
CHDirect access (DA), direct wired (DW), wired network (WN), wireless network (LN)
SRVApplication service (A), platform service (P), maintenance service (M)
MSpoofing (S), tampering (T), repudiation (R), information disclosure (I), denial of service (D), escalation of privilege (E)
ATEE, CH, SRV
RDNonoperational data (ND), operational data (OD), control data (CD), security and configuration data (SD)