Continents to Islands: The effect of widespread interconnectivity on critical infrastructure and legacy systems
Author(s) -
Kayne Naughton
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of telecommunications and the digital economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.202
H-Index - 6
ISSN - 2203-1693
DOI - 10.18080/jtde.v3n4.35
Subject(s) - interconnectivity , legacy system , industrial control system , computer security , business , critical infrastructure , computer science , control (management) , engineering , software , operating system , artificial intelligence
Interconnected devices and the true ‘internet’ cause security challenges to organisations with critical legacy systems. This article discusses a number of legacy issues around Industrial Control Systems and ‘untouchable’ legacy devices and proposes a number of easy and effective mitigations to the practices that expose them to the world.
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