The Threat to Industrial Control Systems

By Ralph Langner

Ralph Langner is the co-founder of The Langner Group, and has 25 years of hands-on field experience in providing cybersecurity guidance for power plants, water treatment facilities, and nuclear facilities.

Ralph Langner is co-founder of the Langner Group, an independent cyber defense consultancy, who has a quarter of a century experience working cybersecurity issues that impact critical infrastructure.  Langner spoke with The Cipher Brief about how the threats facing our nation’s critical infrastructure have evolved, and what needs to be done to maintain security.

The Cipher Brief: Your experience has been focused primarily on critical infrastructure that relies on industrial control systems. Could you briefly describe what those are?

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