Analysis of practical cyberattack scenarios for wind farm SCADA systems

The fourth industrial revolution often referred as Industry 4.0 poses a great cybersecurity risk for Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. Lot of enterprises are changing the energy dependency that they have to be on wind power. These SCADA systems are often vulnerable against different kinds of cyberattacks due to the IT and OT convergence challenges that are observed. Thus, allowing attackers to successfully exploit and manipulate wind farm SCADA systems. During our research concept attack scenarios are going to be introduced. The attack scenarios are leveraging already existing real-world vulnerabilities. The attack scenarios are going to be demonstrated on a specially crafted testbed of a wind farm SCADA system.