The energy and utility industry represents an attractive target for cyberattacks. As part of the U.S. critical infrastructure, energy and utility companies face threats not only from cybercriminals ...

This document provides guidance for establishing secure industrial control systems. These industrial control systems (ICS), which include supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, ...

As industrial control systems (ICSs) have become increasingly connected and use more off-the-shelf components, new vulnerabilities to cyber attacks have emerged. This tutorial looks at three types of ...

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) networks play a crucial role in managing and monitoring the complex infrastructures that comprise the energy and utility industry. From monitoring ...

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Before industrial control systems (ICSs) were network-connected, operators had little to worry about in the way of cyber threats. But as industrial environments, such as energy utilities, become more ...

When adding, modifying or upgrading a system, many critical infrastructures conduct a factory acceptance test (FAT). A FAT includes a customized testing procedure for systems and is executed before ...

While attending the recent Splunk Worldwide Users’ Conference, the high level of interest in industrial machine data was apparent. To an industrial automation audience, this hardly seems surprising.

This document provides guidance for establishing secure industrial control systems. These industrial control systems (ICS), which include supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, ...