Securing Wireless Ethernet on the Plant Floor

Article in: Industrial Networking, Winter 2004

Over the past year (2003) I've written about the serious security risks in using IEEE 802.11—a k a Wireless Ethernet or Wi-Fi—on the plant floor. With all my ranting, you’d think I was against using wireless networks in process control, but I actually like and use Wi-Fi a lot. It is simply too useful to be dismissed...

E.J. Byres; “Securing Wireless Ethernet on the Plant Floor”, Industrial Networking, Putman Publishing, Chicago, Vol. 3, No. 1, p. 11, Winter 2004

 

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