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 ...
Automation World

Legacy SCADA Security: Expert Strategies to Protect Vulnerable Systems from Cyber Threats

Industry experts from Emerson, Schneider Electric and Siemens Digital Industries reveal how manufacturers can assess ...
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 ...
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 ...
CSOonline

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, ...
Power Engineering

SCADA Systems: Unknown Connections Could Spell Trouble

The ease with which TCP/IP enables one to connect networks has been a huge boon for the power generation industry. Far-flung operations can be hooked up to the network and controlled remotely. And ...
Network World

The X-Force experience in SCADA security and terrorism

In this second of two reports, we continue with a summary of the January 2006 BlackHat Federal Conference presentation by David Maynor, who was at that time an R&D research engineer for Internet ...