HP Tuesday plans to unveil a network-monitoring appliance that captures event data generated in systems-control and data-acquisition networks to help energy-sector companies comply with federally ...

Utilities of all sizes face the challenge of efficiently monitoring real-time substation performance across their networks. Each substation is or has the potential to be a data-rich environment, with ...

Economic projections point toward a gradual recovery of industrial production activity in Mexico in the next few years. A prerequisite for this growth, however, is the timely availability of energy ...

One of the biggest benefits of Ethernet on the plant floor is the ability to remotely connect to plant floor systems. But along with the benefits of remote access come the heightened risk of ...

In a slide presentation from the January 2006 BlackHat Federal Conference, David Maynor, was who was at that time an R&D research engineer for Internet Systems Security (ISS) X-Force and colleague ...

The Internet of Things needs technology to connect people to machines and processes. From the operators on the plant floor to the execs in the C-suites, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA ...

After a cyberattack shut down numerous pipeline communication networks this week experts are stressing the importance of securing third-party systems in supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA ...

Download this article in PDF format. When most people think of the Internet of Things (IoT), home automation is what comes to mind. But in terms of complexity, home automation is a simple network ...

SCADA system managers need to learn to better understand the world of cybersecurity, rather than rely on a misplaced faith in “air gaps” for protection, says Eric Byres, VP and CTO of engineering of ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Little-known fact: The power plant able to generate the most ...

Whenever a wintry cold front whips through metropolitan Pittsburgh, employees at Equitable Gas Co. go into action quietly behind the scenes. They click a few buttons on their computer screens to start ...