Whenever a wintry cold front whips through metropolitan Pittsburgh, employees at Equitable Gas Co. go into action quietly behind the scenes. They click a few buttons on their computer screens to start ...

Our critical infrastructure is an attractive target for enemy nations, terrorist groups, or even run-of-the-mill cyber criminals, and many security experts believe that it is not remotely protected ...

SCADA is a fancy word that stands for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition; nevertheless, SCADA is basically getting data from the field. Operations: operators are busy operating the system, thus ...

The Stuxnet computer virus, which destroyed centrifuges at Iran's uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, demonstrated how a cyber attacker can hack a SCADA system to cause damage in the physical world ...

Rob Lee got the idea for SCADA and Me – a barely-technical picturebook that introduces industrial control systems to novices – from a group that should have already known what SCADA systems were but ...

SkyWave Mobile Communications has introduced the IP SCADA service to work with its IDP series terminals designed for low power, reliability and ease of installation. IP SCADA allows IP-based ...

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 ...

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) ...

There is a growing demand for process data beyond the shop floor. Cogent Real-Time Systems discusses how a cloud system, properly implemented, can provide process data to key people in the company or ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- RSA CONFERENCE 2013 – The oil and gas industry now has at its disposal a SCADA security test laboratory for testing just how their environments would hold up -- or not -- to today's ...

A water utility in Illinois was reportedly hacked in a cyber attack traced back to Russia. The motives aren’t clear, but the act alone demonstrates how vulnerable our SCADA (Supervisory Control and ...