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SCADA Systems Cyber Security Challenges, Best Practices, and Measures

This webcast will discuss the challenges Power and Energy companies face in an environment with emerging information security standards and regulations. This webcast will also discuss supervisory control and data acquisition systems SCADA specific security challenges, best practices and measures, along with strategies on how to achieve effective levels of...

Tags: Cyber Security, SCADA, Best Practice, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts

Visualization Portal Graphically Integrates Industrial Controls With Enterprise Data

Adroit Technologies provides Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition SCADA and Human Machine Interface HMI software to industrial and manufacturing organizations around the world. In 2003, following a lot of research into the future of visualization, Adroit made the decision to create a generic, "Configurable" information portal, VIZNET, that would address...

Tags: Visualization, SCADA, Adroit Technologies, VIZNET Client, Portals, Web Technology, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software

Case studies

ScottishPower Increases Reliability With New Energy Management Architecture

SP EnergyNetworks, part of the United Kingdom's ScottishPower utilities company, needed to implement a next-generation energy management architecture to control its critical transmission and distribution system. The 20 year-old Ferranti system was highly reliable, but was becoming costly to operate. After tendering for a high-performance, real-time Supervisory Control And Data...

Tags: SCADA, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Software, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Case studies

MSDN Webcast: Microsoft Application Platform Technologies in Manufacturing (Level 200)

This webcast explores some concrete examples of how the manufacturing industry can benefit from adopting the Microsoft application platform. The viewer will learn how Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition SCADA applications can be enhanced by the flexibility and intuitiveness offered by Windows Workflow Foundation. The presenters show how the expressive...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Application Platform, Webcast, SCADA, Microsoft Corp., Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts

COPC DLL (zip)

COPC DLL is a light-weight activeX for SCADA developer. COPC DLL is appropriate for developer who like flexible of size configurable within large of OPC tags. COPC DLL use small of memory. Then you can create SCADA system for large of tags within hi-speed of operation. This version is the...

Tags: DLL, SCADA, EDA Instruments & System, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2008-05-06

A Strategic Approach to Protecting SCADA and Process Control Systems

Process Control Systems PCS refer to the overall set of systems that remotely monitor and measure remote sensors from a centralized location. These sensors also typically possess some type of automated response capability when certain criteria are met. A subset of PCS systems that manage systems over very large geographic...

Tags: SCADA, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-07-01

Applying an Ethernet LAN in a Substation

This paper is a discussion of an NSTAR Electric & Gas Corp. project using current Ethernet technology to build a Local Area Network LAN in a single substation application. NSTAR's Substation 385D is built around a local Ethernet backbone that passes information for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition SCADA and...

Tags: NSTAR, Ethernet LAN, SCADA, Ethernet, LANs, Network Technology, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-06-07

Managing Italy's Railway Network With SCADA FS

RFI Rete Ferroviaria Italiana or Italian Railway Network is the part of the state railway system Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato that manages the infrastructure of the system. RFI Rete Ferroviaria Italiana wanted to improve service for railway users. The challenge was to provide real-time status information to operators for more...

Tags: Siemens AG, SCADA, Object-oriented, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software

Case studies 2007-02-01

Innovations in Remote Monitoring and Control

ACAM was created in 1907 to distribute energy and water to municipalities along Italy's Gulf of La Spezia and to the Lerici and Portovenere regions. The company's challenge was link main office to peripheral sites to permit real-time remote monitoring and control of critical utility operations. The company deployed Siemens...

Tags: Innovation, Siemens AG, Monitoring, SCADA, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2007-02-01

Cost-Saving SCADA System Prepares Topeka for the Future

The Topeka Water Division is the municipal drinking water system for the City of Topeka, Kansas. Solely supported by revenue from the sale of water to 55,000 customers, the division relies on the Kansas River as the source for drinking water for the city and many surrounding communities. Topeka Water...

Tags: Siemens AG, SCADA, Topeka Water Division, Homeland Security, Enterprise Software, Government, Software

Case studies 2007-02-01

C# and SCADA

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Tags: Enterprise software, forum.4321@..., SCADA, C#

Discussion threads 2007-06-05

C# and SCADA

v r building a remote monitoring system for water purification plant and hop 2 integrate a SCADA system to software written in C#. wht is the best way of doing that?

Tags: .NET, Programming languages, Enterprise software, forum.4321@..., SCADA, C#

Discussion threads 2007-06-05

Meriton Networks Case Study: AltaLink

AltaLink, Canada's only fully independent transmission company, is responsible for the maintenance and operation of approximately 11,600 kilometres of transmission lines and approximately 260 substations in Alberta. Due to construction in Calgary, AltaLink's line-of-sight microwave system was faced with new obstructions. AltaLink needed a replacement network that would run its...

Tags: Network, Microwave, NMS, SCADA, AltaLink, AltaLink Application, Network Administration, Networking, Network Technology, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2006-10-05

Best of Breed vs. Suite Anti-Spyware: What's Best for You?

This paper offers a compelling first-person account by noted security expert Ira Winkler of a penetration test he devised to demonstrate how hackers could theoretically compromise the highly sensitive Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition SCADA systems that secure nuclear reactors. Winkler, who is President of the Internet Security Advisors Group...

Tags: SCADA, Anti-spyware, Winker, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-06-09

COPC32 (zip)

COPC32 ActiveX control used for SCADA creation and development. You can create SCADA system (Graphic monitoring and control, Trending, Alarm) on your favorite programming IDE such as Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio.Net (VB.Net, C#), C# Borland Also free personal edition, and VBA container (MS Excel, Word). COPC32 trail version will...

Tags: SCADA, C#, .Net, Programming Languages, Microsoft Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Development Tools, Software

Software downloads 2006-02-22

Assessment and Remediation of Vulnerabilities in the SCADA and Process Control Systems of Utilities

Most SCADA and Process Control Systems being used by today's utility companies were developed years ago, long before public and private networks or desktop computing were a common part of business operations. As a result, the need for online security measures within these systems was not anticipated. At the time,...

Tags: Internet Security Systems Inc., Vulnerability, SCADA, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2005-07-01

Smart Energy Distribution Management Systems: Powerful, Intelligent Solutions for the Next-Generation Distribution Utility

Smart energy distribution management systems play a crucial role in supporting the needs of the next-generation utility. Encompassing a wide range of advanced capabilities - including Advanced Meter Infrastructure AMI, demand response, Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition SCADA, capacitor bank control, and automated feeder switching - these systems provide utilities...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., SCADA, Utility, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Software

White papers 2005-06-01

Establish a patch management policy

Dangerous advise when used within a Process Control SystemYeah, if NetOps make a mistake in judgement about compatibility with existing software in a conventional business environment, so what's the deal? Email's down a few hours. Web-based apps don't work. This happens every day.But if this same plan...

Tags: Patches, patch management, software

Discussion threads 2006-08-31

The Role of SCADA in Securing Our Critical Infrastructure

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition SCADA systems are critical to the safe, reliable and efficient operation of many essential services that affect the daily lives of millions of North Americans. These services include power generation plants, potable water systems, wastewater treatment facilities, oil and gas production and transportation/distribution networks. SCADA...

Tags: SCADA, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2005-01-10

Risks of Terrorism to Information Technology and to Critical Interdependent Infrastructures

When the operability of IT-based controls and equipment is affected by acts of terrorism, then the performance of critical interdependent infrastructures such as railroads, electric power grids, or oil and gas pipelines is profoundly affected. Such information technology includes supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA systems, the global positioning system...

Tags: Information Technology, SCADA, Terrorism, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2004-12-21