### Question
How is the term industrial control system defined?


### Answer
The term **industrial control system** is defined in *6 U.S.C. § 665i* as the following:

> an information system used to monitor and/or control industrial processes such as manufacturing, product handling, production, and distribution, including supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems used to monitor and/or control geographically dispersed assets, distributed control systems (DCSs), Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs), and programmable logic controllers that control localized processes

#### Citation:
  - *6 U.S.C. § 665i*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 1-HOMELAND SECURITY ORGANIZATION > SUBCHAPTER XVIII-CYBERSECURITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY AGENCY > Part A-Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security**

