Protecting Industrial Control Systems from Electronic Threats - Hardcover

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From manufacturing to chemical and petroleum processing to municipal utilities, you will find an industrial control system at the heart of these industries. Yet they were rarely designed to be secure from tampering or other threats. They were designed to be practical—to permit instant access by the operator to the control system.

Renowned industry security expert Joe Weiss will help you learn about serious electronic threats and the all-too-common lack of security in industrial control systems. You will learn about the differences between enterprise IT security and industrial control security. And you will learn about functional security—a set of practices adapted from the world’s industrial safety standards.

And it isn’t just cyber attack we have to defend against. We also must make our industrial control systems less vulnerable to mistakes, operator error, and failure of design. With this in mind, Joe Weiss includes coverage on “SCADA security” (supervisory control and data acquisition) which is a particularly important part of this field, as well as distributed control systems (DCS), programmable logic controllers (PLCs), remote terminal units (RTUs), intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), and all the other field controllers, sensors, drives, and emission controls that make up the “intelligence” of modern industrial buildings and facilities.

What would happen, for example, if the power in the eleven western United States failed and stayed off for several days or weeks? What would happen if the water system of a major city failed and could not be brought immediately back online? The reader of this book will find herein practical steps and procedures to avoid such scenarios.

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