Instruments and Systems: Monitoring, Control, and Diagnostics Annotation << Back The problems of security assurance in dispatch control systems Berner L.I., Zel’din Yu.M., Kovalev A.A. The article deals with the problems of security assurance in dispatch control systems based on SCADA technology operating in real time. It cites general analysis results on security in SCADA systems. The analysis includes description of possible IT risks. The article also shows the problem urgency under application of different security assurance approaches for real-time and general-purpose systems. It suggests using the SCADA-based software, which are adopted or specially designed for real-time applications to guarantee information security. As an example of such software Industrial Defender Inc. product of the same name is offered. The article is founded on authors’ vital skills on automation acquired during works execution for gas-transport and gas-producing branches of Gazprom Company.