Can't Happen at Your Site? Network Security on the Plant Floor

Article in: InTech Magazine, February 2002

The serious impact that hacking and viruses have had on corporate information technology (IT) systems is well known. Less understood is the potential damage hackers can do to industrial control equipment such as programmable logic controllers (PLC) and human-machine interfaces (HMIs). This article outlines a multi-stage procedure to protect the plant floor from cyber attacks...

Eric Byres; "Can't Happen at Your Site? Network Security on the Plant Floor", InTech Magazine, Instrumentation Systems and Automation Society, Research Triangle Park, NC, p. 20 – 22, February 2002 

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