The convergence of operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) offers a unified view of industrial automation control systems and streamlines communication among personnel and the ...

I learned this lesson the hard way on a bottling line that kept tripping out during peak production. The motor was fine.

The advanced M3000/M4000 series of PAC Controllers from Weidmuller USA integrates the functionality of a PLC and a PC with a control and edge system – in one device. The reliability and security of ...

When a cyber-attack reportedly compromised nuclear centrifuges at Natanz over a decade ago, cyber-threats against industrial control systems (ICS) were still an underground phenomenon. A far cry from ...

Supporting business needs by improving defense-in-depth cybersecurity for industrial automation and control systems (IACSs) is a key challenge today. For example, oil, gas, and water plants need to ...

From the what-could-possibly-go-wrong file comes this: People hawking password-cracking software are targeting the hardware used in industrial-control facilities with malicious code that makes their ...

Performance is a topic that never strays far from the mind of most embedded systems developers. However, relatively speaking, many of us have it easy. We develop soft real-time systems in which a few ...

Worries of eventual cyberattacks on utilities as well as chemical and other industrial sites have intensified in the wake of the recent attacks that led to a power blackout in western Ukraine. But the ...

The vast majority of malware incidents that take place at industrial facilities around the world are just accidental infections, albeit a very small number of targeted attacks have also been detected.

Targeted attacks on computer industrial control systems (ICS) are the biggest threat to critical national infrastructure, according to security firm Kaspersky Lab. But what are the unique security ...