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 ...

SCADA, the control systems for such infrastructure services as water and energy, has us worried whenever critical infrastructure defense is mentioned. Why, then, is it the most insecure industry on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Industrial control systems, including SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) have come under the security spotlight in recent years following a sprinkling of incidents – most notably 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 ...

Don’t expect any of these attacks on SCADA and ICS to slow any time soon. In his talk, “Who’s Really Attacking Your ICS Devices?”, presented recently at Black Hat Europe 2013, Trend Micro Threat ...

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 ...