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CYBERSECURITY
The importance
of a robust ICS design
Discover how a widely Giorgio Vielmini, Regional Technical res. All of these systems have completely
different requirements related to perfor-
Manager, Europe
adopted technology Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories mance, reliability, and of course, cyber-
security compared with both the original
in the IT world can help make scope of Ethernet (now IEEE 802.3) or a
common IT environment.
networks in the OT world fast, CSs are often based on Ethernet It is not a mystery that several cyber at-
tacks have been reported in the last few
technology, which was developed be-
secure and reliable ginning in 1973 at Xerox laboratories in years and their overall number and risk
Palo Alto, California. The main goal at factors are dramatically increasing. This
the time was to share a printer, (priced issue has urged the industry to accelera-
Iat more than US$100,000), between te the development of international stan-
two workstations. Fifty years later, the evo- dards and augmented the interest into
lution of this technology is now adopted modern solutions to address new security
in various installations that are considered concerns and technical requirements.
critical, such as transportation, medical, However, cybersecurity is a topic that em-
energy, and defense control infrastructu- braces the entire design of an ICS, not a
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