Nowadays Stuxnet has become a household term the second anyone talks about cyber security for industrial control systems (ICS). This sophisticated piece of malware first identified in 2010, showed just how powerful an ICS compromise could be in terms of both the impact to manufacturing operations and the possibility of mechanical damage. Was this an isolated attack, unlikely to occur again, or the beginning of a new era in ICS security issues? Read more »

Last week I discussed the first steps to take to get started to improve ICS and SCADA Security in your facility.  Those steps included:

•    Step 1 – Conducting a Security Risk Assessment,
•    Step 2 – Learning Industrial Cyber Security Fundamentals, and
•    Step 3 – Understanding the Unique Requirements of ICS and SCADA Cyber Security. Read more »

The furor over the Siemens vulnerabilities and the fear that Son-of-Stuxnet could be around the corner has raised awareness of the need for cyber security to be taken seriously by the process and critical infrastructure industries.

If you are a process control engineer, an IT professional in a company with an automation division, or a business manager responsible for safety or security, you may be wondering how your organization can get moving on more robust cyber security practices.  This is the article to get you started. Read more »