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#19 PLC Best Practices – Monitor PLC Memory Usage

Measure and provide a baseline for memory usage for every PLC controller deployed in the production environment and trend it on the HMI.

Last updated: September 23, 2021 11:38 am
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Measure and provide a baseline for memory usage for every PLC controller deployed in the production environment and trend it on the HMI.

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Monitor PLC Memory UsageExample
Security ObjectiveTarget Group
MonitoringIntegration / Maintenance Service Provider Asset Owner

Monitor PLC Memory Usage

Since the increase of lines of code in the logic can also lead to increased memory consumption at runtime, it is recommended for PLC programmers to track any deviation from the baseline and dedicate an alarm class to this event.

Example

In Rockwell Allen Bradley PLCs, a baseline can be established on a controller and memory usage can be tracked using the RSLogix 5000 Task Monitor Tool.

Not only the main memory but also the I/O memory and Ladder/Tag memory can be tracked using trends.

Why?

Beneficial for…?Why?
SecurityIncreased memory usage can be an indicator of the PLC running altered code.
ReliabilityTracking memory usage for the running programs could be useful in avoiding total memory consumption and eventual fault state for the PLC controller.
  MaintenanceTracking memory usage could be used in tuning and finding the best scan time for the monitored controller but also in troubleshooting problems and issues related to faulty states.

References

Standard/frameworkMapping
MITRE ATT&CK ICSTactic:  TA002 – Execution
Technique:  T0873 – Project File Infection
ISA 62443-3-3SR 3.4: Software and information integrity
ISA 62443-4-2EDR 3.2: Protection from malicious code

Source: PLC Security

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