TAP Into Technology Blog

Real Time Passive Monitoring is the Smarter Solution

Our infrastructure is at risk. In 2013, an Iranian hacker broke into the flow control mechanism for a dam in upstate New York. Only the fact that the dam itself was broken prevented him from remotely...

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Beyond the Firewall: Smarter Network Security for the “Smart Grid”

Network-enabled sensors and devices, part of the Internet of Things (IoT), can be a boon to industrial operations. They help Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems automate...

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SCADA/ICS – Are We Scared Yet?

Supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA), or industrial control systems (ICS), have been monitoring and controlling our industrial, power and refinery world since the 1960s. Simply...

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Making the Switch: Serial Bus to Ethernet

There’s a lot of talk these days about Industrial Ethernet. What it is and what it is not. Part of the misunderstanding is that the standards are very simple, yet stringent. The simple part of...

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Looking at the Ukraine Power Grid Hack: Why Defending the Industrial Ethernet Is No Longer a Precautionary Tale

When we discussed Rhebo’s innovative approach to Germany’s new IT-Security Act (ITSA), real-world cyber attacks on the industrial Ethernet hadn’t truly come to fruition. It seemed like a critical...

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Top Network Security Challenges/Concerns for 2016

2015 taught us many things, like companies can be breached and many Gigabytes of data can be siphoned off without the company even knowing about it. Even our super secure government sites and health...

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