U.S. makes securing SCADA systems a priority

U.S. makes securing SCADA systems a priority
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-10-28

Wary of the increasing number of online attacks against industrial control systems, the U.S. government has begun a major push to secure the systems used to control and monitor critical infrastructure, such as power, utility and transportation networks.

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Re: U.S. makes securing SCADA systems a priority 2005-11-18
Bob Radvanovsky

No -- the problem is definitively real, and there have been several more incidents than are being released to the general public under the cloak of government secrecy. They call it "Critical Infrastructure Information Security Act of 2002", which basically states that any information that would or could be used to destroy, render useless, incapacitate an infrastructure location or facility, is to be protected. The information is classified as "Sensitive, But Unclassified".

More than likely, the isolated incidents were kept under wraps under the cloak of darkness...

-rad

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SCADA security was recently mentioned at Brumcon 2005-11-06
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