KEYWORDS NIST Industrial Control System Security Activities

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has several ongoing efforts to address industrial control system security. This paper will present an overview of two of these efforts, the Process Control Security Requirements Forum (PCSRF) and the upcoming Special Publication 800-82. The Process Control Security Requirements Forum (PCSRF), formed in spring of 2001, is a 650 member working group of users, vendors, and integrators in the process control industry which is addressing the cyber security requirements for new industrial process control systems and components