Cybersecurity for Protection and Control Systems: An Overview of Proven Design Solutions

This article explains practical design principles to follow for networked protection and control (P&C) systems. Proven cybersecurity best practices, system architectures, monitoring methods, and defense-in-depth techniques are described. The risks and proper mitigations are explain ed for many common problems, such as human error, malicious malware, and advanced nation-state zeroday attacks. This article references and summarizes several industry standards.