Protect Your Plant: Cybersecurity 101

We are becoming too familiar with the external threats our SCADA and corporate computer systems suffer on a day-to-day basis: viruses, malware and ransomware. Proposed legislation could offer some long-term solutions, but how will it protect current corporate and SCADA systems, and can facilities afford to wait?Introduced in July, the Cybersecurity Act of 2013 would “amend the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to permit the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to facilitate and support the development of a voluntary, industry-led set of standards and procedures to reduce