American Gas Association Standard for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
The American Gas Association (AGA) 12-1 is a standard for the encryption of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) communications that can be adopted by utility companies to secure interactions between master systems and remote terminal units in the field. Systems built to the AGA 12-1 standard are National Institute of Standards and Technology compliant and provide the latest in secure communications for SCADA systems and deny unauthorized data transmissions or intrusions.