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ICS and SCADA

ICS and SCADA

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ICS and SCADA

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- In this lesson, we're going to discuss industrial control systems and supervisory control and data acquisition systems, known as ICS and SCADA. In general, most of us work in IT, which is information technology. Now, information technology includes our standard Windows computers, our servers, our networks, our cloud platforms, and things like that. When we start talking about ICS and SCADA though, we're moving into the world of OT, operational technology. Now, operational technology is a communications network that's designed to implement an industrial control system rather than our traditional business and data networking systems. When we're dealing with ICS and SCADA, we're not going to be focused on end user machines or a Windows 11 workstation, for example, sitting on our networks. Instead, with OT we're going to be using technology and computers to do something in the physical world, like open or shut a valve like you might do in a manufacturing plant, create power generation…

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