Plc hardware discrimination using rf dna fingerprinting bradley c wright follow this and additional works athttps scholarafitedu etd this thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the student graduate works at afit scholar it has been accepted for inclusion in theses and dissertations by an authorized administrator of afit scholar for more information please contactrichard . Plc hardware discrimination using rf dna fingerprinting air force institute of technology 9781511581912 books amazonca. Plc hardware discrimination using rf dna fingerprinting i introduction this chapter introduces the research topic and describes the approach taken to attain the research goals section11gives an overview of supervisory control and data acquisition scada systems and some of the issues and vulnerabilities pertaining to them section. Plc hardware discrimination using rf dna fingerprinting by bradley c wright abstract programmable logic controllers are used to control and monitor automated process in many supervisory control and data acquisition scada critical applications as with virtually all electronic devices plcs contain integrated circuits ic that are often manufactured overseas ics that have been plc hardware . To mitigate this risk the rf distinct native attribute rf dna fingerprinting process is applied to plc hardware devices to augment bit level security rf dna fingerprints are generated using two independent signal collection platforms two different classifiers are applied for device classification a verification process is implemented for