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Incident Response
and SCADA
Steven Young
DIFFICULTIES WITH SCADA AND INCIDENT RESPONSE
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and their reliance
on proprietary networks and hardware have long been considered immune to
the network attacks that have wreaked so much havoc on corporate information
systems. Many of these systems were boasted by various water and power
corporations as closed systems. Closed systems to many agencies, companies, and
individuals mean that they were not vulnerable to attacks or exploitation. Research
indicates this condence is misplaced. The move to more open standards such as
Ethernet, TCP/IP, a ...