Citation[]
American Petroleum Institute, API 1164 Pipeline SCADA Security Version 2 (2009).
Overview[]
This is a voluntary industry standard specific to supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) for the petroleum pipeline industry. The standard provides SCADA security best practices to guide liquid pipeline operators on risk assessments, system design, and establishment and review of company policies.
API 1164 addresses access control, communication security, information distribution classification, physical issues including disaster recovery and business continuity plans, operating systems, network design, data interchange between enterprise and third-party support/customers, management systems, and field devices configuration and local access.