Published May 3, 2021, 9:12 AM
During the recent Secure Operational Technology Summit 2021: Elevate Your Security APAC Digital Edition held last April 22-23, 2021, Fortinet discusses the risks of all the threats that are targeting internet-connected operational technology and the OT infrastructure attacks that comes with these threats.
In an article shared and written by Rick Peters, CISO for Operational Technology, North America at Fortinet, forAutomation.com, he mentioned three important things about the new threats impacting ICS/SCADA Systems.
Citizens around the world naturally depend on the OT vertical sector services – including manufacturing, energy, utilities, and transportation infrastructures – provisioned daily. It is therefore critical to safeguard the integrated ICS/SCADA systems within an OT enterprise. As digital transformation sweeps across these sectors to boost efficiency, new cybersecurity concerns have surfaced as once air-gapped systems become exposed to n