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No surprises there. I've written software for a electricity generation company that provides operator guidance on the level of generation requested by the mark
by paulhart 18y ago
No surprises there.
I've written software for a electricity generation company that provides operator guidance on the level of generation requested by the market on a real-time basis.
Eventually, said company is interested in linking that software with their control systems to automate the regulation of the power plant. This is, to my mind, kind of scary. The regulatory bodies seem to agree - should that happen my software would be subject to audit as a "critical cyber-asset".
- streety 18y agoWhat sort of network is/would this be on? I would like to think this would be on a dedicated network but is a vpn more common? I'm assuming this isn't going to be publicly accessible.
- paulhart 18y agoThe app lives on a dedicated server, running a "secure by default" OS (hint hint), on a private network. The network firewall is configured to only allow inbound connections for one protocol from two public IP addresses. All other public traffic is outbound-only.