Monday, June 17, 2013

Defending control systems against cyber-attacks

June 17, 2013

A whole city blacks out, the traffic lights are down and public transportation is paralyzed--such a scenario caused by cyber-attacks on infrastructure was previously thought to occur only in movies and books. However, such concerns are becoming a reality, as seen in Iran, where a computer virus crippled the operation of nuclear facilities in 2010.

To prevent such attacks in Japan, the country’s first cybersecurity testing facility exclusively for control systems opened last month.

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