CNIC --- Computing and Network Infrastructure for Controls
The enormous growth of the Internet during the last decade offers the User new means to share and distribute information and data. At CERN, this resulted in a rapprochement of the process control and automation systems, and the office network. But the adoption of standard IT technologies to distributed process control and automation systems (commonly abbreviated with DCS) also exposes their inherent vulnerabilities to the world.
The CERN Controls Board inaugureted the "Computing and Network Infrastructure for Controls" (CNIC) working group in order to define security policies for the DCS sector, to review the CERN network architecture with respect to DCS, and to suggest tools to configure network and control machines. This presentation will describe CNIC's mission and shall rise awareness on the upcoming changes.