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Article: Control systems cyber security: terrorist threats, hackers, disgruntled employees, and vulnerable process control systems in highly volatile industries give plenty of cause for concern. Should voices calling for greater security be heeded, or are they just the cries of modern-day Chicken Littles?(Cover Story)
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- Control Engineering
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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Insurance companies, lawyers, governments, and individuals throughout the world are increasingly concerned about the possibility and impacts of cyber attack against manufacturing and critical infrastructure. Likewise, manufacturing and critical infrastructure industries, such as electric power, water, and oil/gas, around the globe are concerned about the cyber vulnerabilities of their critical process control systems: DCSs, PLCs, SCADA systems, HMIs, and control systems networks.
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There are reasons for concern--while potential vulnerabilities in traditional IT systems are well known and understood, process control system security ...