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
ABS Consulting Launches Cybersecurity Offering to Combat Increasing Global Attacks on Operational Technology Networks
ABSG Consulting Inc. (ABS Consulting), a leading global operational risk management company, launches today an integrated new cybersecurity service designed to help organizations monitor, manage and reduce the growing threat of Operational Technology (OT) cyber attacks.
“The digital front line is expanding to the OT environment, impacting today’s industrial systems and equipment critical to high performing operations, business reputation and safety,” says Ian Bramson, Global Head of Cybersecurity from ABS Consulting. “This is a new area with low maturity and high risk. As digitalization expands so do the risks of a system breach or cyber attack.”
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WASHINGTON, April 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Shift5, Inc., an operational technology data and cyber security company, has released an innovative solution for real-time predictive maintenance technology for Department of Defense weapon systems. By integrating a combined hardware and software product, platform owners and operators will gain visibility into their fleet health status to decrease maintenance costs and increase operational readiness.
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Department of Defense weapon systems have many costs contributing to their sustainment, with maintenance comprising a major portion of total ownership cost. On one side, maintenance leads to inflated costs and removes vehicles from operations unnecessarily; while on the other side of the spectrum, scaling down maintenance activities to reduce costs could lead to unexpected equipment failure, followed by lengthy t
ABS Consulting Launches Cybersecurity Offering to Combat Increasing Global Attacks on Operational Technology Networks
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An integrated single solution designed by OT experts for industrial networks manages, monitors, detects and defends against growing cybersecurity threats that target operations
Press Release – ABSG Consulting Inc. (ABS Consulting), a leading global operational risk management company, launches today an integrated new cybersecurity service designed to help organizations monitor, manage and reduce the growing threat of Operational Technology (OT) cyber attacks.
“The digital front line is expanding to the OT environment, impacting today’s industrial systems and equipment critical to high performing operations, business reputation and safety,” says Ian Bramson, Global Head of Cybersecurity from ABS Consulting. “This is a new area with low maturity and high risk. As digitalization expands so do the risks of a system breach or cyber attack.
By Yaniv Vardi on April 27, 2021
Companies in the industrial space face unique challenges when it comes to revealing what needs to be secured
For years now, the U.S. government has been warning openly and clearly of targeted attacks against government entities and multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors. However, in the months following the COVID-19 crisis, threat activity surged and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a new alert stating: “We are in a state of heightened tensions and additional risk and exposure.” The broad warnings of an imminent and serious threat across all 16 critical infrastructure sectors included lengthy, detailed sets of recommendations for how to protect operational technology (OT) environments, beginning with “create an accurate, as operated, OT network map immediate