Group, I would like to start another discussion about ITE equipment and security. Reports and investigations have shown that ITE equipment in almost any office is susceptible to transients applied to the mains network OUTSIDE the building. Using relative small electronic equipment on the market for EMC testing pulses can be injected that could crash or even destroy the supply of a substantial of the IT equipment (read PC) in that same building. Test were done with products of reputable manufacturers. It made almost no difference how the mains network was organized in terms of switchboards and how the IT equipment was supplied. The slow high energy pulses came trough almost unattenuated.
At this very moment no immunity requirements exist for IT equipment in many large economic areas in the world. Would this open up a new field of interest for us EMC and Safety Engineers ? Or would the topic be grasped by less scrupulous individuals in the world before we got hands on this ? What do YOU think ! And how could we change that risk in time ? Do we need to protect the mains networks or the IT equipment ? What other vulnerabilities exist in our current IT system world wide ? Regards, Gert Gremmen, (Ing) ce-test, qualified testing =============================================== Web presence http://www.cetest.nl CE-shop http://www.cetest.nl/ce_shop.htm /-/ Compliance testing is our core business /-/ ===============================================
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