local area network

If malicious actors were able to penetrate the local area network of the converter station on the wind farm side, these actors could tamper with the system's sensors.

In order to access this information on the go, the app’s developers also created a portable backpack kit that acts as a local area network without connections to the broader Internet.

“I spent a lot of time on LAN—local area network,” he said.

The most common local area network protocol is Ethernet, the same format that has been a business and home networking standard for decades.

Instead, they should have set up a separate local area network, or LAN, that could not connect to the rest of the bank or the Internet, police said.