Secure your critical infrastructure by understanding architectures and risks, hardening legacy and modern systems, protecting data and communications, and building resilient policies through real-world case studies
Key Features
- Use GenAI to quickly draft SCADA cybersecurity policies and implementation plans to guide your system's defense
- Learn how to minimize SCADA breach risk with segmented networks and strong access control
- Detect anomalies with AI to spot threats early and keep operations running
- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Book Description
SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems power factories, utilities, transit, and grids, linking sensors, PLCs, RTUs, and HMIs that keep critical infrastructure running. This book demystifies SCADA for security and operations teams by covering architectures, protocols, the IT/OT boundary, threat models, and attack paths. You'll learn how to defend these systems by segmenting networks, hardening endpoints, securing remote access, and monitoring traffic to build an incident-ready environment with real-world checklists and labs. Written as a field guide for plants and control rooms where downtime isn't an option, it serves OT/ICS engineers, security analysts, integrators, and managers who must ensure safety under vendor constraints and change-control limits. Moving beyond frameworks, it covers vendor-neutral patterns, configurations, and adaptable playbooks that fit any industry. By the end, you'll be able to map assets and data flows, assess risks, design zone-and-conduit defenses, ensure secure protocols, and rehearse incident response and recovery. Most importantly, you'll deliver measurable resilience, safer operations, faster threat detection, and compliance-ready documentation.
What you will learn
- Identify SCADA components, roles, and data flows
- Map assets and classify risks across zones and conduits
- Design segmented networks that contain lateral movement
- Design documentation for SCADA policy and planning using GenAI
- Harden PLCs, RTUs, HMIs, and gateways against attacks
- Implement secure remote access and authentication
- Monitor traffic and detect anomalies in real time
- Respond to incidents with tested playbooks and drills
- Document controls for audits and regulatory compliance
Who this book is for
This book is for OT/ICS engineers, SCADA admins, security analysts, plant operators, integrators, and managers who must secure uptime and safety across utilities, manufacturing, energy, transport, and critical infrastructure.
