SCADA systems control the lights, gas and water in your town to name just a few. These are systems that are running our critical infrastrucutre. These are the same systems that, historically, SCADA vendors have not taken security seriously.
The Idaho National Laboratory and the New York State Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure have teamed up with utilities and makers of distributed control system software to offer advice on how to make system security a major part of the critical infrastructure.
Later this week, the group will release the latest draft of a set of guidelines for utilities and manufacturers that offers specific requirements for suppliers of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, SecurityFocus has learned.
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