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Current hierarchical SCADA systems uses communication protocols which aren’t having the inbuilt security mechanism. This lack of security mechanism will help attackers to sabotage the SCADA system. However, to cripple down the SCADA systems completely coordinated communication channel attacks can be performed. IEC 60870-5-101 and IEC 60870-5-104 protocols are widely used in current SCADA systems in...