Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems provide for the supervisory control, management, and monitoring of process control, and manufacturing automation systems through the collection and analysis of real-time data.
(The acronym stands for supervisory control and data acquisition).
Known as "supervisory control and data acquisition", such systems have been around for decades.
Our most recent efficiency savings initiative is the introduction of a new SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) industrial control system for remotely monitoring and managing gas infrastructure via mobile networks and the internet.
Several times between August 28th and September 18th of 2013, Firoozi allegedly obtained "unauthorized remote access" to the computer, housed in a basement room in Rye's city hall, that controlled the dam's "supervisory control and data acquisition" system.
As analyzed by computer security experts around the world, Stuxnet targeted certain "supervisory control and data acquisition" (SCADA) systems manufactured by the German electrical company Siemens AG that control machinery employed in power plants and similar installations.
The program targeted a very specific communications protocol called DNP3, which is predominantly used by electric and water companies, and plays a crucial role in so-called S.C.A.D.A. (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems.
The next month Siemens, a German industrial giant, warned customers that their "supervisory control and data acquisition" (SCADA) management systems, which control valves, pipelines and industrial equipment, were vulnerable to the worm.
By attacking these supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, Stuxnet was able to cause industrial processes to behave in a manner inconsistent with their original programming, thus crossing the line between cyberspace and the "real world".
Known as the Aurora test, it demonstrated how it was possible to launch a cyber-attack on a big diesel generator by exploiting a weakness in a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system.
