Cybersecurity for industrial control systems: SCADA, DCS, PLC, HMI, and SIS

SCADA - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition - Systems don't necessarily mesh well with standard IT security, although combined the two can create deepened levels of protection. This book demonstrates how to develop a SCADA cyber security program and how to work with internal and external IT resources in order to implement it. The technical level of this text ensures that it does not provide a detailed 'cookbook' that can be used to attack SCADA systems, but the text still provides sufficient technical detail to address areas of concern

RIoT control : understanding and managing risks and the internet of things /

RIoT Control: Understanding and Managing Risks and the Internet of Things explains IoT risk in terms of project requirements, business needs, and system designs. Learn how the Internet of Things (IoT) is different from "RegularïŽ Enterprise security, more intricate and more complex to understand and manage. Billions of internet-connected devices make for a chaotic system, prone to unexpected behaviors. Industries considering IoT technologies need guidance on IoT-ready security and risk management practices to ensure key management objectives like Financial and Market success, and Regulatory compliance. Understand the threats and vulnerabilities of the IoT, including endpoints, newly emerged forms of gateway, network connectivity, and cloud-based data centers. Gain insights as to which emerging techniques are best according to your specific IoT system, its risks, and organizational needs. After a thorough introduction to the Iot, Riot Control explores dozens of IoT-specific risk management requirements, examines IoT-specific threats and finally provides risk management recommendations which are intended as applicable to a wide range of use-cases.Includes index.Vendor-supplied metadata.RIoT Control: Understanding and Managing Risks and the Internet of Things explains IoT risk in terms of project requirements, business needs, and system designs. Learn how the Internet of Things (IoT) is different from "RegularïŽ Enterprise security, more intricate and more complex to understand and manage. Billions of internet-connected devices make for a chaotic system, prone to unexpected behaviors. Industries considering IoT technologies need guidance on IoT-ready security and risk management practices to ensure key management objectives like Financial and Market success, and Regulatory compliance. Understand the threats and vulnerabilities of the IoT, including endpoints, newly emerged forms of gateway, network connectivity, and cloud-based data centers. Gain insights as to which emerging techniques are best according to your specific IoT system, its risks, and organizational needs. After a thorough introduction to the Iot, Riot Control explores dozens of IoT-specific risk management requirements, examines IoT-specific threats and finally provides risk management recommendations which are intended as applicable to a wide range of use-cases.Includes bibliographical references and index.Elsevie

Strategies for Assessing Community Challenges and Strengths for Cancer Disparities Participatory Research and Outreach

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Iterative Systems Biology for Medicine – Time for advancing from network signatures to mechanistic equations

The rise and growth of Systems Biology following the sequencing of the human genome has been astounding. Early on, an iterative wet-dry methodology was formulated which turned out as a successful approach in deciphering biological complexity. Such type of analysis effectively identified and associated molecular network signatures operative in biological processes across different systems. Yet, it has proven difficult to distinguish between causes and consequences, thus making it challenging to attack medical questions where we require precise causative drug targets and disease mechanisms beyond a web of associated markers. Here we review principal advances with regard to identification of structure, dynamics, control, and design of biological systems, following the structure in the visionary review from 2002 by Dr. Kitano. Yet, here we find that the underlying challenge of finding the governing mechanistic system equations enabling precision medicine remains open thus rendering clinical translation of systems biology arduous. However, stunning advances in raw computational power, generation of high-precision multi-faceted biological data, combined with powerful algorithms hold promise to set the stage for data-driven identification of equations implicating a fundamental understanding of living systems during health and disease

Feminist theory

To write of feminist theory in the 1790s is a complex undertaking. Even amidst the enthusiasm of the sexual revolution of the 1970s when feminist scholarship in academia homed in on the 1790s in the project to retrieve past women for the establishment of a female history and tradition to rival that of men, a certain unease began to be apparent about usage of the term feminist theory in relation to pre-nineteenth-century culture. It was not until the late nineteenth century that “feminism,” in the Oxford English Dictionary’s common definition of the word, emerged as a political movement advocating the “equality of the sexes and the establishment of the political, social, and economic rights of the female sex.” Hence the charge, in Regina Janes’ words, that “To speak of eighteenth-century feminism is to commit a vile anachronism, for there was no movement, no concerted demand for change in the political or economic sphere.