February 2015, Vol. 242, No. 2
Features
Achieving Vital Security With Cloud Services
Are your company’s business systems connected in any way to the industrial control systems (ICS), including Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), which are used to manage the company’s critical infrastructure? If they are, and the best guess is they are, then the ICS/SCADA could be vulnerable to cyberattacks in addition to the business side of the networks. In 2013, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ICS Cyber Emergency Response Team (CERT) responded to 256 reported industry incidents and 59% of these were in the energy sector, including the pipeline and gas industry. The disturbing fact on this was not only that the number of actual incidents was

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