Performance is a topic that never strays far from the mind of most embedded systems developers. However, relatively speaking, many of us have it easy. We develop soft real-time systems in which a few ...

Low-code and modular programming environments are transforming PLC programming, with vendors providing pre-packaged libraries and objects that eliminate traditional IEC-61131-3 style coding, allowing ...

Back in 1982, the CIA uncovered a plot by the Soviet Union to steal industrial software for controlling its rapidly expanding network of natural-gas pipelines. In response, the agency modified the ...

The advantages of cloud computing for industrial applications are increasingly finding themselves equally weighted—if not somewhat less favored—with the advantages of edge computing. Both offer ...

Dragos, a company building software to secure the control systems for manufacturing and industrial equipment, has raised $74 million in a Series D round extension led by WestCap. The round, which ...

The Stuxnet and Target attacks have squashed many of the myths about securing industrial control system security. Myth #1 – Isolating control systems networks keeps them safe from malicious attacks: ...