FINAL WORD
NAVIGATING
SCADA ATTACKS
The attack by the Stuxnet virus against Iran in 2010
raised awareness of the vulnerability of industrial
systems known as SCADA (Supervisory Control
And Data Acquisition). However, for how long have
these threats existed? What are the means used by
cybercriminals to target industrial systems? What are
the impacts of these attacks? In this article, Ruchna
Nigam, Security researcher at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs
shares expert insights into SCADA attacks.
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CADA is a term describing
systems that are used to
control physical equipment.
These systems are used in many
industrial applications, like for driving
turbines at power plants, oil and gas
pipelines; at public facilities like metal
detectors at airports; and even in
private facilities e.g. to control/monitor
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