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Wallets and Agents

Phil Windley

This figure shows the relationship between an agent, a wallet, and the underlying operating system. Key management is performed in cooperation with the operating system and underlying hardware. Businesses will use enterprise agents that are integrated with other enterprise systems like CRM, ERP, and IAM systems.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

Stuxnet targets supervisory control and data acquisition systems. Instead of just targeting zero days in the Windows operating system- which it did -- it then infected Siemens Step7 systems, causing the fast-spinning centrifuges to tear themselves apart. They spent that time researching and understanding the environment.

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