Industrial Control Systems

TheBasics

Industrial control systems (ICS) are computers that control the world around you. They're responsible for managing the air conditioning in your office, the turbines at a power plant, the lighting at the theatre or the robots at a factory

CommonTerms

SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
PLC Programmable Logic Controller
DCS Distributed Control System

SearchFilter

Shodan continuously crawls the Internet and discovers Internet-accessible ICS devices. If you have an enterprise subscription to Shodan you can use the tag search filter with a value of ics to get a list all ICS on the Internet right now.

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Modbus

Modbus is a popular protocol for industrial control systems (ICS). It provides easy, raw access to the control system without requiring any authentication.

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Siemens S7

S7 (S7 Communication) is a Siemens proprietary protocol that runs between programmable logic controllers (PLCs) of the Siemens S7 family.

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DNP3

DNP3 (Distributed Network Protocol) is a set of communications protocols used between components in process automation systems. Its main use is in utilities such as electric and water companies.

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Tridium Niagara

The Fox protocol, developed as part of the Niagara framework from Tridium, is most commonly seen in building automation systems (offices, libraries, Universities, etc.)

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BACnet

BACnet is a communications protocol for building automation and control networks. It was designed to allow communication of building automation and control systems for applications such as heating, air-conditioning, lighting, and fire detection systems.

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EtherNet/IP

EtherNet/IP was introduced in 2001 and is an industrial Ethernet network solution available for manufacturing automation.

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GE-SRTP

Service Request Transport Protocol (GE-SRTP) protocol is developed by GE Intelligent Platforms (earlier GE Fanuc) for transfer of data from PLCs

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HART IP

The HART Communications Protocol (Highway Addressable Remote Transducer Protocol) is an early implementation of Fieldbus, a digital industrial automation protocol. Its most notable advantage is that it can communicate over legacy wiring.

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PCWorx

PCWorx is a protocol and program by Phoenix Contact used by a wide range of industries.

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Mitsubishi Electric

MELSEC-Q Series use a proprietary network protocol for communication. The devices are used by equipment and manufacturing facilities to provide high-speed, large volume data processing and machine control.

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Omron FINS

FINS, Factory Interface Network Service, is a network protocol used by Omron PLCs, over different physical networks like Ethernet, Controller Link, DeviceNet and RS-232C.

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Redlion Controls

The protocol the Crimson v3.0 desktop software uses when communicating with the Red Lion Controls G306a human machine interface (HMI).

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CODESYS

Over 250 device manufacturers from different industrial sectors offer automation devices with a CODESYS programming interface. Consequently, thousands of users such as machine or plant builders around the world employ CODESYS for automation tasks.

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IEC 60870-5-104

IEC 60870 part 5 is one of the IEC 60870 set of standards which define systems used for SCADA in electrical engineering and power system automation applications.

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ProConOS

ProConOS is a high performance PLC run time engine designed for both embedded and PC based control applications.

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