Industrial control systems, just like other IT systems, have growing connectivity and usability requirements – proportionally, their vulnerability is growing. When you factor in that cyber-attacks are increasingly being sponsored by governments, you understand news such as Stuxnet, Duqu, or the one mentioned below.

 ”Intruders compromised a water utility network last week and destroyed a pump, according to a state government report cited by a critical infrastructure security expert today.”  Read more here.

Read about APT: Advanced Persistent Threat.

Here is an interesting piece on the topic by El Reg – Hacktivists pose growing threat to industrial computing.