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What Is an Industrial PC? How Plant-Floor Computers Differ From Standard Hardware
An industrial PC is built to survive exactly what kills a standard desktop tower on a plant floor. Dust cakes the intake fan until it seizes. A forklift’s vibration works a memory module loose. A summer without air conditioning pushes the CPU past its rated…
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It Takes a Village to Protect the Nation’s Plant Floors
Last year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) made a strange request. It put a call out to be hacked. As explained in Forbes, hackers were essentially asked to discover the vulnerabilities existing within the DHS systems for a possible reward of up to…
A Long-Term Relationship: The Marriage of the System Integrator and Industrial Software
A recent Power Engineering article opened by bringing us back to 2015. Even before there was the ongoing turmoil that we face today with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, that year marked a significant event unto itself. A series of outages impacted nearly a quarter of…
Ringing the Alarm for OT Security
Although cybersecurity has been important for quite some time, it seems as though last year was the real wakeup call that we needed to remind us just how important it is. Between the rise in the number of attacks to the scale of some of them, we have seen the…
Securing the Plant Floor and the Future of ICS Cybersecurity
In early March, it was reported by Reuters that Toyota Motor Corp had experienced a cyberattack impacting its supply chain. The issue was discovered when Kojima Industries Corp, the plastic parts and electronic components provider to the automaker, realized that it…
From the Plant Floor Up – The Importance of Cybersecurity in Operational Technology (OT)
Kicking off a recent episode of the “Into the Breach” podcast, Mitch Mayne stated, “Attacks on operational technology (OT) — the systems that control industrial equipment, processes and events — were once the domain of Hollywood, which roll out…
Russian Ukrainian Conflict Ignites Security Concerns
The Concern Over Ransomware While not a new issue, ransomware has certainly been plaguing the minds of cybersecurity experts as of lately. A recent report from Mandiant’s threat intelligence team supported some of the fears around these attacks when it confirmed…
