{"id":210,"date":"2025-11-23T17:27:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T17:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jonathan-rice-eportfolio\/?p=210"},"modified":"2025-11-23T17:27:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T17:27:32","slug":"scada-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jonathan-rice-eportfolio\/2025\/11\/23\/scada-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"SCADA Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jonathan Rice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SCADA Systems, standing for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition,<br>helps mitigate risks by doing tasks automatically and giving information to a<br>supervisor while still allowing a supervisor tell it what to do in case the process<br>needs to be changed. It also can contain many other systems to help the user, for<br>instance a trouble shooting guide. (SCADA Systems pp 1-2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure systems<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure systems can be poor or default<br>passwords, outdated software, lack of multi-step authentication, and lack of<br>awareness of cybersecurity threats, for example a phishing email. (Office of the<br>Director of National Intelligence, 2024 p. 2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How SCADA can help reduce the risks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SCADA can help reduce these risks by not having a system that can be<br>easily tampered with outside of the facility it is housed in, therefore any normal<br>internet attack that is caused by lack of awareness should be reduced, like<br>malicious attacks through things like emails. Thanks to the third generation of this<br>technology, we are able to upgrade our software to our cybersecurity needs can be<br>met and should be able to add multifactor authentication furthering the safety past<br>just a password.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>References:<br>Office of the Director of National Intelligence. (2024). Recent Cyber Attacks on<br>US Infrastructure Underscore Vulnerability of Critical US Systems.<br>https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/files\/CTIIC\/documents\/products\/Recent_Cyber_Attacks_on_<br>US_Infrastructure_Underscore_Vulnerability_of_Critical_US_Systems-<br>June2024.pdf<br>https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1DvxnWUSLe27H5u8A6yyIS9Qz7BVt_8p2<br>WeNHctGVboY\/edit?tab=t.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Rice SCADA Systems, standing for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition,helps mitigate risks by doing tasks automatically and giving information to asupervisor while still allowing a supervisor tell it what to do in case the processneeds to be changed. It&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jonathan-rice-eportfolio\/2025\/11\/23\/scada-systems\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28422,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jonathan-rice-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jonathan-rice-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jonathan-rice-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jonathan-rice-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jonathan-rice-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jonathan-rice-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jonathan-rice-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jonathan-rice-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jonathan-rice-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/jonathan-rice-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}