A Cloud Based Alternative to Traditional SCADA
What is SCADA? Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems have been in existence three decades and have long been considered the de facto method for interfacing with PLCs and providing alarming, logging, trending, and operator interface functionality. Today most SCADA
How to Make Sense of Machine Data in Smart Factory 101
“Digital transformation” and “smart factory” are the terms that have been around for a while, but only advanced manufacturers apply them to practice. The idea of machine to machine communication has raised the initial excitement and high hopes but now
Top 10 reasons to implement a remote monitoring system leveraging IIoT
Does your company struggle with maintaining SCADA systems, want more efficient services for your customers, or want to save money by having a company set-up a cloud-based remote monitoring solution? What is a remote monitoring system? Remote monitoring and controling system are
Best Practices in Digital Thread Management
One buzzword rocking the manufacturing world these days is the "digital thread." But what is the digital thread? The digital thread is the framework of communication that allows for a connected data flow allowing you to view your data throughout
Critical Infrastructure and ICS Security Remain a Network Segmentation Problem
Companies in every industry are developing and implementing connected industrial control applications as strategic digital business initiatives. However, the risks of security breaches and the subsequent impacts to consumer privacy and now personal safety are limiting the delivery of secure
CEO Insights: Why Cybersecurity is an enablement of IIoT
Lucian Fogoros: How would you rate the level of cybersecurity awareness among industry in general? What level of uptake do you see regarding the level of cybersecurity best practices and systems? Joseph Saunders: With the many reported attacks on utilities, SCADA
Protect Critical Infrastructure With Runsafe Security’s Alkemist
Hackers are having increasing success penetrating the operating technology and industrial control systems underpinning data centers, utilities, manufacturing plants. As organizations incorporate smart devices, connect to the Internet of Things, and utilize the cloud to optimize performance, new attack vectors
Commercial Availability of Self-Service Cyberhardening Technology
RunSafe Security, the pioneer of a patented cyberhardening process for vulnerable embedded systems, devices and industrial control systems (ICS), has announced the commercial availability of Alkemist, a proprietary self-service technology built to reduce vulnerabilities and deny malware the uniformity needed to
US Intelligence says Cyber Threat Warning Lights are Blinking Red
Why Industrial Operations are not Immune Recently, US intelligence chief Dan Coats remarked in a talk at the Hudson Institute that ‘the warning lights are blinking red again' on cyber attacks, as they were before the Sept 11 attacks in 2001. While