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 ...

In this sixth article in a series focusing on the need for improved information assurance and cyber situational awareness in the electric power industry, we continue a survey of government and ...

ReVuln, a Malta-based security startup that specializes in vulnerability research, is working on a product that could allow companies to protect their SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) ...

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 ...

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are critical as they are used to monitor and control the delivery of essential services such as ...

Most security operations people I’ve spoken with at electrical utilities have a good handle on the security vulnerabilities within their own SCADA environments. Their problem is convincing their ...

Industrial automation platform Rapid SCADA contains seven key vulnerabilities. CISA recently published an advisory about seven vulnerabilities in Rapid SCADA—an open-source industrial automation ...

It’s popular maxim in cybersecurity circles because it’s true for any organization, especially in an increasingly digital and cloud-centric environment: You can’t protect what you don’t know. With the ...

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems face numerous threats from cybermarauders coming at them from any of a number of directions. Some systems could suffer malware attacks even ...

There was a time when the thought of hacking a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system would have been more likely to be part of a fictional movie plot than a news story. Yet the ...

Join us on Wednesday, July 14 at noon Pacific for the SCADA Security Hack Chat with Éireann Leverett! As a society, we’ve learned a lot of hard lessons over the last year and a half or so. But one of ...

Rob Lee got the idea for SCADA and Me – a barely-technical picturebook that introduces industrial control systems to novices – from a group that should have already known what SCADA systems were but ...