The latest research suggests, within just two years, the security situation for SCADA has got worse to the tune of an average increase of 1.6 vulnerabilities per application tested.
IOActive and Embedi security researchers looked at the security of mobile SCADA apps back in 2015 and security was not brilliant. They have now repeated that research, and oh boy are things getting worse.
So what’s going wrong, and why isn’t security getting better in this supposedly cyber-aware era?