CII-SCADA 4.0: Cyber attack can become physical attack, warns cybersecurity specialist

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 4 (UNI) A cyber attack on critical infrastructure does not end with the breach of a firewall or computer network, as the real danger begins when a digital command reaches and influences a physical process, leading to potential disruption of industrial operations, power systems and other critical services, according to leading industrial cybersecurity specialist K. S. Manoj. A stolen credential can potentially become a SCADA command, a compromised engineering workstation can provide a pathway to a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), and a manipulated control signal can alter the functioning of a substation, disrupt an industrial process or destabilise…