Foreword
Dr. Anton A. Chuvakin
Security Warrior Consulting
One of the most mysterious areas of information security is industrial system security. No other area of information security contains that many myths, mistakes, misconceptions and outright lies. Information available online, while voluminous, will only lead information security professionals and industrial systems professionals to more confusion and more misconceptions—which may result in not only costly, but also life-threatening, mistakes.
What raises the mystery even higher is that the stakes in the area of industrial security are extremely high. While the loss of trade secret information may kill a business, the loss of electricity generating capability may kill not just one person, ...