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Vulnerability Assessments: Importance and How-to

01/09/12 | Control Engineering

This in-depth "how-to" article, from Cybati's Matt Luallen, highlights the importance of vulnerability assessments as an integral part of an ICS cyber security program. They are also required for most (if not all) compliance standards.

Here, Mr. Luallen describes the beginning of the "painful process":

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Probably the part of the process that companies find the most painful, physically and psychologically, is taking an inventory of all your cyber assets, how they’re connected, and how they’re programmed. This can be a monumental task if you don’t have much documentation or what you have isn’t current. But it means everything:

  • Servers
  • Network switches
  • User terminals
  • Desktop and laptop PCs
  • PLCs and controllers
  • Terminal racks
  • Wireless transmitters and receivers
  • Mobile devices on the network, and
  • Everything else.

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