A Desktop Review of Security Techniques Applicable for Optimised Water Network

A recently published study indicated that a water supply and distribution utility industry which relies on an optimised water network should be designed with SCADA and Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure. This is to ensure data availability and improvement of network performance for proper planning and decision making for the water utility. The designed network will be connected to the public or Information Communication Technology (ICT) network for data collections from various remote data sources, this will expose water network to various security attacks, therefore security must be incorporated in the optimised water network design. In order to determine the type of security that can be implemented in such a network, systematic literature review on published paper was conducted to review how current optimised water networks optimisations are designed, are secured in order to incorporate security in the network design. Based on findings, a holistic multi-layered and end to end security approach followed in designing SCADA & IoT networks was suggested and will be adopted for testing and is envisaged to prevent and mitigate possible security attacks to optimised water networks.