Being at the heart of an operation's data visualization, control and reporting for operational improvements, HMI/SCADA systems have received a great deal of attention, especially due to various cyber ...

Rather than overselling the DIY approach, the article presents the extensive scope of modern SCADA requirements — from mobile device support to code signing for security updates to help you make ...

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 ...

Don’t expect any of these attacks on SCADA and ICS to slow any time soon. In his talk, “Who’s Really Attacking Your ICS Devices?”, presented recently at Black Hat Europe 2013, Trend Micro Threat ...

The ISA112 consensus-based technical standard identifies and promotes best practices. When it comes to supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, oil and gas industry users and vendors ...

Industrial control systems, including SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) have come under the security spotlight in recent years following a sprinkling of incidents – most notably the ...

"Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change" provides a worldwide assessment of countries' efforts to meet their climate change commitments. It also noted a "disastrous" acceleration of global ...

All of this can be accomplished with the use of a SCADA system within the automation process. However, none of these functions are available if the system is not designed with a reliable power source ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s USGS agency reports that there are about 67,000 large (utility-scale) wind turbines in operation in the United States. These thousands of wind turbines are ...

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 ...