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Control systems

Control systems

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Control systems

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- [Instructor] Applications developed for control systems come with their own unique security architecture requirements. Architecting applications for industrial, medical and automotive environments, especially in the age of IOT, requires a slightly different set of security considerations. Industrial control systems are a family of control systems that support critical national infrastructures all around the world. You'll find them in industries like electricity, oil, water, transportation, manufacturing, and communications. Each of these industries relies on tightly-controlled, highly-specialized systems running software that was intended to be deployed and then left alone. A change, a patch, or even a network scan comes with a risk of causing an outage. Well, an outage in an enterprise environment might mean that you have to stay late to get those systems back online. An outage, or even worse, a breach in any of these systems could threaten the physical safety of millions. Take a…

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