Articles tagged as SCADA

Securing the Future of Industrial Operations: How Smart RTUs Are Changing the Game
· Cybersecurity

Securing the Future of Industrial Operations: How Smart RTUs Are Changing the Game

Cybersecurity remains one of the most pressing challenges in industrial operations, but the biggest risk isn’t just external threats—it’s how companies manage and control access to critical infrastructure. James Redmond, Global Offer Manager for SCADA & Telemetry at Schneider Electric, discusses how new smart RTU solutions are transforming security, efficiency, and scalability in industrial environments. […]

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Protecting IT and OT Resources Against Advanced Threats in Manufacturing
· Connected Industry

Protecting IT and OT Resources Against Advanced Threats in Manufacturing

Manufacturing organizations manage expensive and sophisticated equipment at their factories—and the systems that run the machinery are increasingly being connected to the internet. The cybersecurity implications of this trend are significant, including possible threats to physical safety, and in some cases, national security. Companies strive to secure their systems while maintaining business imperatives like operational […]

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Deploying Analytics On The Shop Floor: How And Where To Start
· Analytics

Deploying Analytics On The Shop Floor: How And Where To Start

Industrial Digital Transformation is happening, but the reality is that most companies are handling data on paper. To think about analytics on the shop floor, one of the first things to be done is to automate not only the process, but the data collection and transformation. This is a key step to think about Artificial Intelligence or other terms like Digital Twins and that […]

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A New Way to Harness IoT Data from Legacy Industrial Systems
· Connected Industry

A New Way to Harness IoT Data from Legacy Industrial Systems

If you’re familiar with the manufacturing world, chances are Programmable Logical Controllers (PLCs) are nothing new to you. Having their roots in the automotive industry, PLCs are omnipresent across all modern industries today and akin to the brains of factory automation systems. While coming in many shapes and forms, industrial PLCs are used for a […]

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· Digital Disruption

A Cloud Based Alternative to Traditional SCADA

What is SCADA?  Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems have been in existence three decades and have long been considered the de facto method for interfacing with PLCs and providing alarming, logging, trending, and operator interface functionality.  Today most SCADA packages include web and mobile interfaces and tout these features as their Industrial Internet […]

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How to Make Sense of Machine Data in Smart Factory 101
· Connected Industry

How to Make Sense of Machine Data in Smart Factory 101

“Digital transformation” and “smart factory” are the terms that have been around for a while, but only advanced manufacturers apply them to practice. The idea of machine to machine communication has raised the initial excitement and high hopes but now owners of mid-size and small factories ask: “What’s next? How do I start adopting these […]

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Top 10 reasons to implement a remote monitoring system leveraging IIoT
· Connected Industry

Top 10 reasons to implement a remote monitoring system leveraging IIoT

Does your company struggle with maintaining SCADA systems, want more efficient services for your customers, or want to save money by having a company set-up a cloud-based remote monitoring solution? What is a remote monitoring system? Remote monitoring and controling system are designed to collect data about the operations of any given unit and transmit […]

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Best Practices in Digital Thread Management
· Connected Industry

Best Practices in Digital Thread Management

One buzzword rocking the manufacturing world these days is the “digital thread.” But what is the digital thread? The digital thread is the framework of communication that allows for a connected data flow allowing you to view your data throughout its entire lifecycle across functional areas that have traditionally existed in silos. These gaps exist […]

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Critical Infrastructure and ICS Security Remain a Network Segmentation Problem
· Cybersecurity

Critical Infrastructure and ICS Security Remain a Network Segmentation Problem

Companies in every industry are developing and implementing connected industrial control applications as strategic digital business initiatives. However, the risks of security breaches and the subsequent impacts to consumer privacy and now personal safety are limiting the delivery of secure and resilient services, that are based on these connected applications.  Many company’s networks remain disconnected […]

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CEO Insights: Why Cybersecurity is an enablement of IIoT
· Cybersecurity

CEO Insights: Why Cybersecurity is an enablement of IIoT

Lucian Fogoros: How would you rate the level of cybersecurity awareness among industry in general? What level of uptake do you see regarding the level of cybersecurity best practices and systems? Joseph Saunders: With the many reported attacks on utilities, SCADA systems, and operational technology, I’d have to say that the level of cybersecurity awareness […]

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Protect Critical Infrastructure With Runsafe Security’s Alkemist
· Cybersecurity

Protect Critical Infrastructure With Runsafe Security’s Alkemist

Hackers are having increasing success penetrating the operating technology and industrial control systems underpinning data centers, utilities, manufacturing plants. As organizations incorporate smart devices, connect to the Internet of Things, and utilize the cloud to optimize performance, new attack vectors – and cyber vulnerabilities – are created. Skilled cybercriminals only need to find a single […]

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Commercial Availability of Self-Service Cyberhardening Technology
· Cybersecurity

Commercial Availability of Self-Service Cyberhardening Technology

RunSafe Security, the pioneer of a patented cyberhardening process for vulnerable embedded systems, devices and industrial control systems (ICS), has announced the commercial availability of Alkemist, a proprietary self-service technology built to reduce vulnerabilities and deny malware the uniformity needed to execute. Previously known as Software Guardian, Alkemist uses remotely deployable software binary runtime application self-protection […]

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