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Technology Cannot Adequately Protect An Ics Case Analysis

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NIST SP800-82 states, "A single security product or technology cannot adequately protect an ICS." Do you agree or disagree with this statement and why? I personal agree with 100% confidence that there is no one security technology, product, or even security tactic that by itself can be used to protect an industrial control system adequately against all security threats. The reason I say this is three fold. First off, industrial control systems are high target systems for nation state actors and political activist who have and spend large sums of money to create specialized cyber-attacks, malware, and viruses to gain access to and control of industrial control systems. This means that these cyber criminals are continually developing new advanced …show more content…

I work for a power company providing system administration and security for critical industrial control systems used in the distribution and transmission of power and we use way over 10 different security products and technologies to ensure the security of our industrial control system and if there was one technology or product which could successfully protect an industrial control system from all threats every organization with an industrial control system would have heard of it and use it for security. Along with this, throughout his class we have already covered numerous different technologies which for protecting industrial control systems. If there was one technology or product to secure an industrial control system it would be covered in this class, even more so, this class would not even be necessary to have because all you would have to talk about is how to implement and use this one security product or technology to protect your industrial control

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