Safety and product quality: Preventing unsafe states, bad product, and environmental releases. Integrity: Ensuring control logic, recipes, and setpoints are correct and traceable. Much like SCADA systems, cyberattacks to BMS can result in a wide variety of issues ranging in severity. Industrial Control Systems (ICS), which include Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, Distributed Control Systems (DCS), and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), play a crucial role in managing and regulating industrial processes. The vulnerabilities vary from basic issues like systems without passwords or with hard-coded passwords to configuration issues, software bugs and hardware vulnerabilities. Once an attacker is able to run software on a host that has access to a controller, the likelihood of a successful attack is. IT/OT convergence, accelerated by the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), connects ICS devices with both IT and OT networks. While this improves operational efficiency, it also increases exposure to cyber threats.
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