Professionals concerned with securing the systems that run water and electric utilities, dams, railways and other critical infrastructures are gathering this week in Florida to understand better the challenges facing them and learn how to defend their systems.

Called the Process Control and SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) Security Summit, the event is hosted by The SANS Institute, is paid for by the Departments of Energy and Homeland Security, and targets professionals involved with automated industrial control systems.

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