Critical infrastructure vulnerable to attack, warns cyber security expert

Government Security News: “It has been proven routinely in one security test after another that any hacker with a bit of skill and time can take control of equipment on safety-critical networks,” said Andrew Ginter, vice president of industrial security at Waterfall Security. Waterfall, of Calgary, CA specializes in providing data diodes and unidirectional security gateways to critical infrastructure facilities such as nuclear power plants, water treatment facilities, and transportation systems. Many of their security solutions are compatible with industrial applications such as Siemens SIMATIC/Spectrum, GE OSM, Modbus, and the OSIsoft PI Historian.

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