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Control system security.
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During last month’s customer conference in Dallas, Ernie Rakaczky, business development manager for control system security for Invensys Systems Canada Inc., conducted an informative, if nightmarish roundtable discussion on control system security chronicled by Editor in Chief Walt Boyes in his SoundOff! Editors Blog.
Rakaczky and the other panelists posited a set of interlocking interests and functions for control system security with the end user at the center of t0he puzzle, surrounded by a ring of protection provided by academia, standards and other non-governmental organizations, IT security suppliers, control system suppliers and government agencies. Boyes provides a comprehensive summation of all positions in this online piece but admits, “I am a cynical and jaded automation professional, and I know that the first rule of cybersecurity protection is, “what one coder can protect, another coder can break.”
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