From: Design News
Al Presher, Contributing Writer
Industrial control systems have traditionally set its overall priorities as safety first and production availability next. But what is interesting now is that security, driven by the threat of cyberattacks, has moved forward and needs to be balanced with these first two priorities.
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“There has been not only an awareness that threats not only can occur but an admission that it’s not a matter of if but when,” Nancy Cam-Winget, distinguished engineer at Cisco Systems, told Design News. “The need for education is more at the forefront and more accepted, where in the past there was more of a tendency to wait.
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