: skip to main skip to sidebar Not another Industrial software Blog What I really think Standards , networking , security , databases , open source , and topics related to the development of HMI , and SCADA . systems Thursday , January 17, 2013 Laughable security in SCADA I've been preaching about the lacking state of computer security in SCADA for years that networks will not stay isolated , proprietary , and . protected This post really sums it up . Here's another really scary one The solution , at a minimum , is to apply standard IT practices to your industrial processes . Better yet , consider your architecture holistically with Defense in Depth in mind . In any case , have all the experts represented , which includes your IT . department We should be able to fix this without it