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Have you been feeling "cyber security breach fatigue?" We don't blame you. Cyberattacks or employee errors that cause disruption and revenue losses to industrial and critical infrastructure organizations are particularly popular in news media today. That's partly because a successful disruption within critical infrastructures can cause physical consequences that get the public's attention.

Over the past decade or more, the need for cyber security in industrial automation and control systems has been accelerating at an ever-increasing rate. Adoption of the benefits of commercial off-the-shelf and open technologies, awareness of the systems, exposure of the systems and precedents set by previous attacks have all contributed to the increase. The advent of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) pushes this even further, with the increased uptake and reduced cost of powerful computing technologies like cloud, virtualization, shared networks and so on.

Forecasters predict that the Internet of Things (IoT) will increase the number of machines, appliances and devices connected to the Internet from the current five billion to 80 billion by 2020. Greater connectivity means more knowledge, which means increased opportunities – and it all revolves around security.