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In December 2015 part of the electricity sector in Ukraine was attacked by the Trojan BlackEnergy. This modular Trojan that allows different additional malware to be loaded left a million and a half people without electricity.

2015 has come to an end and it is now time to look back on the year's evolution as well as on how hard companies worked towards achieving industrial device security.

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) encompass several types of systems designed to control and automate industrial processes. From controlling the temperature of an oven to the movement of a conveyer belt in a factory. A simplified and typical view of the architecture of ICS could be made up of the following elements. Sensors: They receive information from the physical world and translate it...