This workshop provides engineers and technicians with the basic theoretical and practical understanding of PLC and SCADA systems. It traces the evolution of the PLC as an intelligent 'black box' ...

NREL researchers have developed interoperable SCADA protocols for PV inverters. Two new sets of codes were conceived to enable legacy inverters, which are inverters that are not capable of providing ...

One of the biggest benefits of Ethernet on the plant floor is the ability to remotely connect to plant floor systems. But along with the benefits of remote access come the heightened risk of ...

The rise of concepts like the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and more formalized digitalization movements like Industry 4.0 have led many in industry to wonder about the future of automation ...

SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) is a true battleground in the war against cyber attacks. It’s become one of those innocuous acronyms for what is now the most crucial of analytic tools ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s USGS agency reports that there are about 67,000 large (utility-scale) wind turbines in operation in the United States. These thousands of wind turbines are ...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Digital Bond and Rapid7 announced today at the S4 Conference the release of a new Metasploit module to exploit the GE D20 PLC, and a partnership to move ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Little-known fact: The power plant able to generate the most ...

An experiment highlighting threats to internet-facing industrial control systems (ICS) left researchers with troubling evidence that these devices and systems are prime targets for attackers.