It’s long been known that a reactive approach to industrial control system maintenance is not an ideal strategy. Working from a reactive stance, in which problems are corrected as they occur, results ...

Doug Bonderud is an award-winning writer capable of bridging the gap between complex and conversational across technology, innovation and the human condition. Industrial control systems are often some ...

Steve Durbin is Chief Executive of Information Security Forum. He is a frequent speaker on the Board’s role in cybersecurity and technology. Assessing threats is a crucial step to building an ...

Some of the biggest challenges faced in securing industrial control systems involve integrating legacy and aging operational technology with modern IT systems. Engineering workstation compromises were ...

Meskernel’s LDL-S laser rangefinder module provides millimeter-level accuracy and flexible measurement modes for industrial automation and embedded control applications.

Defense-in-depth is a concept that is already widely deployed by many organizations within their IT infrastructures. However, many organizations do not apply it to their industrial control system (ICS ...

What if a variable-frequency drive (VFD) on a critical system has a fault indication, the “error” LED on a DC power supply has turned on, or a conveyor belt has started behaving erratically — most ...

About 100,000 industrial control systems (ICS) were found on the public web, exposed to attackers probing them for vulnerabilities and at risk of unauthorized access. Among them are power grids, ...

Outlining real-world attacks against the water, oil and gas, and agriculture industries, Canada’s Centre for Cyber Security highlights the risks of internet-exposed ICS devices. Security experts have ...

Do you have a perimeter firewall connecting your business to the public internet? With the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and digital transformation efforts, the number of devices below ...

Only a few times in the history of hacking has a piece of malicious code been spotted attempting to meddle directly with industrial control systems, the computers that bridge the gap between digital ...