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 ...

White Papers “Understanding SCADA System Security Vulnerabilities” (download .pdf) From RipTech. Covers “how vulnerable utility networks are to cyberattack. The article also explains the types of ...

The EU's cyber security Agency ENISA released a white paper today, giving recommendations regarding prevention and preparedness for an agile and integrated response to cyber security attacks and ...

The ISA-112 Part 1 standard provides a framework for modernizing supervisory control and data acquisition systems and making them easier to design, build, operate and maintain. Supervisory control and ...

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 ...

If you think database patching is onerous and fraught with risk, then try patching a SCADA system that's running a power plant. With post-Stuxnet paranoia pressuring major SCADA vendors like Siemens ...

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 ...

Manufacturers are adopting hybrid models that combine on-premises edge computing for real-time control with cloud services for historical data storage and advanced analytics, supported by open ...

An international research team has developed a new software-based framework to increase cybersecurity in Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems used in power plants, electricity ...

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 ...

Additional parts of ISA-112 addressing SCADA lifecycle review processes and SCADA architectures are also planned for release. ISA-112 Part 1 is intended for companies, utilities, system integrators ...