As enterprises in the automation and process industries look to improve productivity and increase uptime, they are more and more turning to Internet-based technologies that allow employees to remotely ...

Today's automation systems collectively impact plant safety, economic throughput, environmental compliance, and equipment protection. Each system contains a unique and complex collection of tags, ...

WHO: Stephen Emrich is the business development executive of SCADA and electric power for FreeWave Technologies, a manufacturer of 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz license-free spread spectrum radio modems and OEM ...

Stuxnet and Triton/Trisis may have forever shaken the naive sense of security in ICS/SCADA networks, but attackers meanwhile are quietly hammering away at the IT infrastructure of energy firms and ...

The juicy headlines in cyber warfare may center on IT battles between Google and Chinese hackers, but security experts at US Cyber Command at Fort Meade, Md., are much more concerned about SCADA ...

Recognizing that the biggest security risk to your control system assets are the operators who interface with the system on a daily basis is the most important step to successfully securing your ...

Just over a decade ago, an article titled, "Advanced Control Strategies Move into the Field" (Control, October 2008), highlighted three evolving trends in the process control world that would "make ...

Advanced packaging is transforming semiconductor manufacturing into a multi-dimensional challenge, blending 2D front-end wafer fabrication with 2.5D/3D assemblies, high-frequency device ...