Discussing why pipeline companies might want to design SCADA systems for maintainability, he says, “Missed alarms and downtime can easily lead to spills that cost over $30,000 per barrel of oil in a ...

SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) is a true battleground in the war against cyber attacks. It’s become one of those innocuous acronyms for what is now the most crucial of analytic tools ...

Utilities of all sizes face the challenge of efficiently monitoring real-time substation performance across their networks. Each substation is or has the potential to be a data-rich environment, with ...

“The sad truth is that Shodan is just scratching the surface of unprotected or misconfigured SCADA devices… And, of course, the search engine merely finds systems. It doesn’t expose the myriad of bad ...

Threats to aging supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, which monitor and control key industrial processes in critical infrastructure, have been growing in recent years. The latest ...

Many leading industrial and governmental network infrastructures employ supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and distributed control systems (DCS) to automate, monitor and control crucial ...

City of St. Helena. A failing computer knocked out the plant’s Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition system, stripping ...

The investment in your SCADA system and software should not be taken lightly. Here are seven tips to help you make the right choice. Not all SCADA systems are created equal. As the brain of your ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. The threat landscape facing companies in ...

One of the most significant contributions can be, as Jyothsna Devi says, the integration of SCADA systems with IoT and enterprise systems. In industrial automation Supervisory Control and Data ...

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 ...

Benton County Electric System has commissioned a new Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system. Benton County Electric System, headquartered in Camden, Tennessee, serves approximately 10 ...