Evaluating Cybersecurity Risks to Manufacturing Systems

Businesses and government agencies must re-examine the growing threat of cyberterrorism to automated computer systems running power grids, dams and other industrial facilities, security experts said Tuesday. . . . HOUSTON (AP) -- Businesses and government agencies must re-examine the growing threat of cyberterrorism to automated computer systems running power grids, dams and other industrial facilities, security experts said Tuesday.

From 1982 until about 2000, problems with such systems usually were associated with internal accidents or inappropriate employee behavior, said Eric Byres, manager of Critical Infrastructure Security Research at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

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