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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The UK’s leading cybersecurity agency has published guidance to help organizations make better informed decisions about whether to migrate their supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) ...

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 ...

The security of critical-infrastructure processes, long festering as a thorny issue in securing everything from food and water to energy and transportation, will be getting a boost from proposed ...

We’ve covered the troubles with SCADA security at length, but have yet to see a real consensus on how to proceed. Amol Sarwate, security research manager at Qualys, took a crack at making sense of ...

Critical infrastructure operators that have adopted the security industry's popular risk management mindset are doing it wrong, according to Ralph Langner. Langner, the German security expert who ...