No one disputes that there's a dire need for major change in addressing serious gaping security holes in SCADA/industrial control systems (ICS) today. Frustrated with the inertia associated with ...

The use of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) devices is growing. That growth is expected to continue to soar. According to research firm Frost & Sullivan SCADA revenues will grow from ...

Mobile applications used to help control internet-connected SCADA (industrial control and supervisory control and data acquisition) systems are riddled with security vulnerabilities which, if ...

Threats to aging supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, which monitor and control key industrial processes in critical infrastructure, have been growing in recent years. The latest ...

A risk assessment, combined with a vulnerability assessment and threat scenario analysis, specifically identifies cyber vulnerabilities that may require elimination from a pipeline system. Elimination ...

Computerized process-control systems run some of the most critical infrastructures in the U.S., such as power utilities, water treatment plants, chemical plants and mass-transit systems. Until ...

SCADA systems are ever more open to security threats – Amol Sarwate explains how to mitigate the risks All around us, critical IT services keep our homes powered, water coming to the taps, and ...

The stakes are higher with the security of factories, power plants and other industrial systems, so the issue must be raised: What should the rules of disclosure for SCADA vulnerabilities be? The ...

Friend and colleague Professor Michael Miora, CISSP-ISSMP, FBCI has contributed the following interesting case study to the series of columns on the security of supervisory control and data ...

Industrial control systems such as SCADA systems sit squarely at the intersection of the digital and physical worlds. They're vulnerable, they're unpatchable, and they're connected to the Internet.

Like Cliff Claven (the jovial factoid-sharing postal carrier of the syndicated television comedy, "Cheers"), I'm easily enthralled by trivia. For example, I bet you didn't know that Hells Canyon, ...