Vulnerabilities In SCADA
Vulnerabilities associated with critical infrastructure systems are virus infections,
unauthorized access to software, and etc. These types of vulnerabilities can be very dangerous
because when hackers get ahold of the critical infrastructure system they can stop, for example,
water distribution systems, oil, and water pipelines. This is vital because if hackers get ahold of
this it will affect companies and people because these are things we use in our everyday lives.
SCADA systems can be damaged or shut down by someone who’s managing the SCADA
system.
SCADA MITIGATION
There are several ways to lower the risk of the SCADA system getting infiltrated. One
method to mitigate SCADA systems is called multifactor authentication. What multifactor
authentication does is boost the security to access control systems. So it will ask something
that you know personally with additional steps. One more example to mitigate the SCADA
system is a firewall. A VPN is a virtual private network that can be used to create an encrypted
connection to the SCADA system.
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