This page currently contains details for 23 vignettes that are
being actively developed for CWRAF. The CWRAF community will help to
refine these and develop others. Feedback is welcome.
| banking-finance |
| Financial Trading | Internet-facing, E-commerce provider of retail goods or services. Data-centric -
Database containing PII, credit card numbers, and inventory. |
| Online Banking | The web-based interaction between a bank, credit union, or other financial
institution and its consumers for managing accounts, paying bills, and conducting
financial transactions. |
| chemical |
| Chemical Flow Control | A SCADA-based flow control system for a chemical plant. Underlying technology -
heavy C usage. Systems developed in pre-Internet era with management consoles
interfacing to them. |
| ecomm |
| Web-Based Retail Provider | Internet-facing, E-commerce provider of retail goods or services. Data-centric -
Database containing PII, credit card numbers, and inventory. |
| emerg-svc |
| First Responder | First responder (such as fire, police, and emergency medical personnel) for a
disaster or catastrophe. |
| energy |
| Household Smart Meter | Meter within the Smart Grid that records electrical consumption and communicates
this information to the supplier on a regular basis. |
| Smart Grid remote utility server | Obtains information from smart meters through neighborhood gateways. |
| Smart Grid Neighborhood Gateway | Appliance between smart meter and remote utility server. |
| Regional Electricity Flow Control | Flow control for an electricity network throughout a relatively large region, to
further connect suppliers and consumers. Power now enters the grid from both sides
(classic provider, but also home-to-provider e.g. home photo-voltaic and wind
turbines in homes and throughout the landscape). System needs to have "smarts" to
the load leveling capabilities of the grid which is basically a large distributed
SCADA-type system. |
| SCADA Historian | Historian server for archival and analysis of data for a SCADA system. Contains a
database backend and is accessible via a web interface. Access to the server is
typically restricted to a DMZ or internal network. |
| Distributed Production Facility Management using SCADA Web-based HMI | A web-based Human Machine Interface (HMI) for SCADA systems. Users can visualize
and control industrial automation processes in real-time from a control interface
directly in communication with remote sensors and data collection points. All facets
of production can be monitored and managed from a web browser.
The HMI uses various frameworks (Java, .NET, etc.) with Restful Architecture
(AJAX, XML, SOAP, XSL, and WML). |
| evoting |
| State Election Administration using remote Internet voting via absentee ballot | Internet-facing polling system supporting high-volume transactions, high
availability, Data-centric Database containing ballot information, Audit log
generation for each voter. |
| State or Local Elections using eVoting via Direct Recording Election Machines. | DRE systems are not directly connected with the Internet. Vote data is uploaded to
a centralized server via modem. Election worker retrieves hardcopies of the voting
record from the machine and delivers the printouts to election officials. DRE
machines are programmed with firmware uploaded from a compact flash card. It is
generally accepted that the computer used to upload the firmware to the flash card
should not be connected to the Internet. |
| State or Local Elections using eVoting via an Internet web application | Internet-facing polling systems are connected to the Internet and are designed to
support high-volume transactions and high availability. A Data-centric Database is
used to collect ballot information, Audit logs are generated for each voter. |
| Corporate Shareholder Internet voting | Corporate Shareholder voting using remote Internet voting. |
| human-res |
| Employee Compensation | Product for managing employee salary and bonuses. PII includes salary, financial
transaction (e.g. for direct deposit), social security number, home address,
etc. |
| natl-defense |
| Weapon system sensor | Sensor for a weapons system that is connected to the Global Information Grid
(GIG). |
| pub-health |
| Medical Billing | Medical encoding and billing. Data used includes Electronic Health Records (EHR),
financial management, and interactions with insurance companies. |
| Human Medical Devices | Medical devices - "implantable" or "partially embedded" in humans, as well as
usage in clinic or hospital environments ("patient care" devices). Includes items
such as pacemakers and automatic drug delivery. Control or monitoring of the device
might be performed by smartphones. The devices are not in a physically secured
environment. |
| soc-media |
| Social Networking | Web site for enabling a large community of people to post comments, create
profiles, exchange messages or pictures, and join affiliation groups, e.g. Facebook,
MySpace, Twitter, or LinkedIn. Free-form content, high connectivity between users,
private messaging. Heavy Web 2.0 usage. |
| Electronic Dating | Web site for electronic dating. Users can create profiles with pictures, exchange
private email, participate in discussion forums, perform searches. Heavy Web
2.0. |
| telecom |
| Teleworking - Remote Access Server | Remote Access Server used to support employees working outside the enterprise,
including teleworking/telecommuting. |
| Teleworking - Web Mail | Use of web-based email for remote access. |
