Supervisory Control and Data Acquisitions (SCADA) systems have revolutionized the power industry since their inception, giving owner/operators unprecedented visibility into powering their power ...

Schneider Electric has announced Vijeo Citect V7.20 SCADA software, the latest version of its integrated industrial automation and control solution, increasing overall performance of control systems ...

The ISA112 consensus-based technical standard identifies and promotes best practices. When it comes to supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, oil and gas industry users and vendors ...

In this sixth article in a series focusing on the need for improved information assurance and cyber situational awareness in the electric power industry, we continue a survey of government and ...

All of this can be accomplished with the use of a SCADA system within the automation process. However, none of these functions are available if the system is not designed with a reliable power source ...

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 ...

A defense-in-depth architecture built around a dual-data model reduces the risk of supervisory control and data acquisition networks being hacked or their data being stolen. The dual-data approach ...

Picture this scenario: At 2:37 a.m. during a storm, lightning strikes a distribution feeder line in rural Wisconsin. A massive power surge races through the distribution network. Instead of triggering ...

Most security operations people I’ve spoken with at electrical utilities have a good handle on the security vulnerabilities within their own SCADA environments. Their problem is convincing their ...

Despite increasing signs of overlap between SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) and MES (manufacturing execution systems), the two automation mainstays are more likely to co-exist as a ...

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 ...