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On January 20, President Joseph Biden issued Executive Order (E.O.) 13990 to help protect U.S. bulk power organizations. This Order enacted a 90-day suspension of E.O. 13920 which was set by the previous administration. The new executive order empowere… Continue reading Key Considerations for the Department of Energy on Defending the Bulk Power Grid
Attacks against operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) grew dramatically in the past few years. Indeed, a 2020 report found that digital attacks against those two kinds of assets increased by over 2000% between 2018 and 2020. … Continue reading A Fifth of IT Decision-Makers Not Confident in Their OT System Security, Reveals Survey
Industrial control systems (ICS) have been the target of countless cyberattacks in recent years. Some of these attacks have an extortion goal in mind, while others seem to be nothing more than a test to see if the attacker is able to access and disrup… Continue reading Is There Hope for ICS and Supply Chain Security?
On May 8th, I was at a gas station filling up my car before a trip I was taking when the news about a cyberattack against a large pipeline company broke. The attack led them to halt all operations. Ultimately, the incident stemmed from a ransomware inf… Continue reading IT Network Attacks Can Impact Your OT Networks, Too
There is a saying in cybersecurity that “Data is the new oil.” If that is true, then that oil is powering not only the economy but also industry. The term ‘Industry 4.0’ refers to the fourth industrial revolution where traditional manufacturing and ind… Continue reading Ghosts in the Machine – OT and IT Convergence
Over the weekend, the Alpharetta, GA based Colonial Pipeline was hit by an extensive ransomware attack that shut down its information technology (IT) and industrial operational technology (OT) systems. Simply put, an all-too-common ransomware event tar… Continue reading Industrial Cybersecurity: Guidelines for Protecting Critical Infrastructure
The US Defense Department and third-party military contractors are being advised to strengthen the security of their operational technology (OT) in the wake of security breaches, such as the SolarWinds supply chain attack. The guidance comes from the N… Continue reading NSA offers advice: connecting OT to the rest of the net can lead to “indefensible levels of risk”
When it comes to cybersecurity, industrial IT—consisting mainly of operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS)—has failed to keep up with development in the enterprise IT world. That’s mostly because industries’ adoption of interne… Continue reading Industrial IoT Needs to Catch Up to Consumer IoT
Organizations are increasingly introducing new Internet of Things (IoT) devices into their environments. According to Statista, the aggregate number of IoT devices deployed by organizations globally increased from 7.74 billion in 2019 to around 8.74 bi… Continue reading Survey: 99% of Security Pros Struggling to Secure Their IoT & IIoT Devices
The objective of an organization when implementing cybersecurity controls is to eliminate risk, but this oftentimes involves settling for managing risk at an acceptable level. Each organization defines what that acceptable level is depending on several… Continue reading To Patch or Not to Patch in OT – That Is the Real Challenge