Power Plant Control Room Technology-a Double-edged Sword

摘要

* DCS systems increasingly are subject to cyberattacks. Since 2000, the number of successful cyberattacks has increased tenfold against SCADA systems at power generation, petroleum production and nuclear plants and water treatment facilities. The recent discovery of the Stuxnet worm further highlights the risk to real-time systems. Stuxnet is believed to be the first computer virus or worm specifically written to exploit control system vulnerabilities and sabotage the systems.