Cyber Security ICS

A Smart Grid, a petroleum refinery, and a city skyscraper may all utilize ICS, yet each represents unique variations in terms of size, complexity, and risk. All are built using the same technologies and principles making the cyber security concerns of each similar and the fundamentals of industrial cyber security equally applicable.

Cyber security is usually focused on the protection of “logical” assets and not the “physical”
assets that contain them. Physical security is that which tends to focus more on the protection of a physical asset. Security from a general point-of-view can therefore effectively protect a “logical” asset, a “physical” asset, or both.

Regardless of whether a device is classified as an “asset” for regulatory purposes or not, they will all be considered accordingly in the context of cyber security.