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Cybersecurity Best Practices for Industrial Control Systems

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Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are important to supporting US critical infrastructure and maintaining national security. ICS owners and operators face threats from a variety of adversaries whose intentions include gathering intelligence and disrupting National Critical Functions.

As ICS owners and operators adopt new technologies to improve operational efficiencies, they should be aware of the additional cybersecurity risk of connecting operational technology (OT) to enterprise information technology (IT) systems and Internet of Things (IoT) devices.