Monday, September 17, 2012

Mitigating advanced persistent threats within industrial and critical infrastructure environments

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Mitigating advanced persistent threats within industrial and critical infrastructure environments
Industrial control systems (ICSs) are the backbone of our industrial and critical infrastructures. As organizations connect their ICSs to the Internet, or integrate them with enterprise applications, the ICSs become vulnerable to cyberattack through everything from common malware to advanced persistent threats (APTs). Mitigating the risk of APTs in industrial control systems takes a special kind of firewall. Read More


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