Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Heavy-industry firms — including energy ...

New data points illustrate just what a turning point Stuxnet truly was in SCADA security: Twenty times more software flaws have been discovered in industrial-control systems (ICS)/SCADA systems since ...

Telvent is the first vendor selected to participate in a SCADA testing project to ensure critical IT security and infrastructure protection in multi-vendor Telvent is the first vendor selected to ...

ANN ARBOR (WWJ) --Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems that operate industrial systems are found at hospitals, water treatment plants, energy generation stations, warehouses and ...

Telvent has won the designation of being the first vendor to participate in a supervisory control and data acquisition, or “SCADA,” testing project. This project is dedicated to the cause of ensuring ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As utilities get smarter and more connected, the threat landscape for energy systems becomes vaster and more dangerous than ever before. A layered defense should consist of a combination of security ...

Now that security issues have moved front and center in the industrial control discussion thanks to Stuxnet, industry operations of all sizes and types are starting to develop security strategies. To ...

On 18 October, 2010 a significant event occurred concerning threats to SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) environments. That event is the addition of a zero-day exploit for the RealFlex ...

To understand why they are fragile it’s important to first understand a bit of the ICS architecture. At a high level, most of these organizations have three operational zones. This zone is made up of ...