SCADA Cyber Security – Hollywood fiction or bitter reality?
SCADA Cyber Security – Hollywood fiction or bitter reality?
Imagine it’s late in the evening and before heading out of the office you want a cool glass of water, but the water isn’t running. You shrug it off, head down to the underground parking and get into your comfortable, air-conditioned car.
Just about halfway through town the entire city suddenly falls into darkness. Not a single light can be seen except distant stars shining feebly in the sky. No hum of electricity can be heard, not a single traffic light flickers and not a single smartphone chirps. All major utility services are suddenly, abruptly, in cohesion – cease working.
While this may sound like the opening scene of some new sci-fi, aliens-taking-over-the-world Hollywood film, it can, quite dauntingly one should add, become reality – with no aliens involved.
Meet SCADA systems and SCADA cyber security
SCADA systems are the beating heart of any major plant, factory, utility company and the like. It connects its different physical parts with its databases and IT systems. It controls both virtual information and its physical manifestation in the actual world.
The problem is that such systems are very susceptible to cyber threats. Hackers, cyber-terrorists and even foreign entities can gain unauthorized access to such systems and interrupt normal, day-to-day life. That’s where ICS Security comes into play.
SCADA cyber security
Our trained experts can quickly and professionally evaluate the condition of any organization in terms of cyber awareness and readiness. Based on such comprehensive evaluations they draft tailored programs to provide means, training and support to ensure cyber security is at its highest level and that cyber threats and cyber-attacks are either prevented and thwarted altogether or identified, monitored, controlled and then mitigated.
Contact us today for your very own cyber security program.