An analysis of industrial control systems (ICS) has shown that many products contain features and functions that have been designed with no security in mind, allowing malicious hackers to abuse them and potentially cause serious damage.

PAS, which provides industrial cybersecurity and operations management solutions, has analyzed data collected over the past year from over 10,000 industrial endpoints housed by organizations in the oil and gas, refining and chemicals, power generation, pulp and paper, and mining sectors.