Industrial
Mitigating Industrial Production Risk with Tripwire
It seems that the most popular topics in cybersecurity for the last year has been zero trust as well as the convergence of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT). These developments ...
What Types of Security Capabilities Do Managed Service Providers (MSP) Offer?
Last time, I discussed the four basic types of managed service providers (MSPs) with which organizations commonly partner. Those categories help to determine the types of services offered by MSPs. In general, ...
Delivering Electrons, Generating Data Lakes, and the Security & Privacy Considerations of Running a Modern Industrial Organization
In this episode, Patrick Miller, Founder of Ampere Industrial Security, discusses what utilities and other industrial companies need to consider when it comes to the goldmines of data they’re collecting from their ...
Industrial Cybersecurity: Guidelines for Protecting Critical Infrastructure
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 ...
3 Zones that Require Network Security for Industrial Remote Access
By now, we have a good understanding of what secure remote access (SRA) is and why organizations might choose to enable it for their OT environments. We also know that securing IT-OT ...
New ‘MontysThree’ Toolset Used in Targeted Industrial Espionage Attacks
Researchers uncovered a new toolset they’ve dubbed “MontysThree” that has played a role in targeted industrial espionage attacks stretching back to 2018. In the summer of 2020, Kaspersky Lab discovered that an ...
Why Asset Visibility Is Essential to the Security of Your Industrial Environment
Threats against industrial environments are on the rise. Near the beginning of 2019, for example, Kaspersky Lab revealed that 47% of industrial control system (ICS) computers on which its software was installed ...
Lacking Direction to Address your ICS Cybersecurity Issues? Here’s What You Can Do
With more and more automation systems and industrial devices being connected to networks, raw data from every device can be transformed into a treasure chest of valuable information. Granted, this data can ...
Survey: 93% of ICS Pros Fear Digital Attacks Will Affect Operations
Digital attackers are increasingly targeting industrial environments these days. Take manufacturing organizations, for instance. Back in late-August, FortiGuard Labs discovered a malspam campaign that had targeted a large U.S. manufacturing company with ...
Five Convergence Solutions to Help Manufacturing Cross the IT-OT Security Schism
Industrial, and in particular discrete manufacturing, is said to be lagging behind other industries when it comes to converging its OT and IT technology, according to Industry Week. For example, financial institutions ...
