Network World

SCADA security and terrorism: The X-Force Report

In a slide presentation from the January 2006 BlackHat Federal Conference, David Maynor, was who was at that time an R&D research engineer for Internet Systems Security (ISS) X-Force and colleague ...
Computerworld

Securing SCADA systems still a piecemeal affair

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) ...
Campus Technology

SCADA Security and the "Most Monumental Non-Nuclear Explosion and Fire"

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, ...
Computerworld

How to meet the SCADA security challenge

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 ...
T&D

Utility SCADA Systems Remain a Key Point of Security Vulnerability in Smart Grid Deployments

The discovery of the Stuxnet worm in 2010 shone a harsh light on the fragility of industrial control systems (ICS), such as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, and has created a ...
Network World

Increasing security of SCADA systems in power industry

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 ...
BizTech

How Security Assessments and Gap Analyses Can Improve SCADA Defenses

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 ...
Security

SCADA Security Incidents Will Become More Prevalent, According to Lumeta

SOMERSET, N.J. , July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumeta, the leading provider of Network Assurance solutions for enterprises and government agencies, today warned that, as industries connect their previously ...
Dark Reading

SCADA Security Heats Up

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 ...
JD Supra

Security Snippets: Rapid SCADA vulnerabilities create risk

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 ...
CSOonline

The State of SCADA Security

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 ...