This year was one of the most intense in terms of cybersecurity attacks affecting industrial control systems. For the first time since Stuxnet, a malicious toolset called CrashOverride/Industroyer targeted physical systems. The WannaCry and Petya attacks appear to have changed forever the attitude of industrial enterprises to the problem of protecting essential production systems. IoT […]
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Industrial Control Systems (ICS) allow operators to monitor and control industrial processes, including those in manufacturing, power transmission, oil & gas, and other industries. You can find Industrial Control Systems in lots of different places – from a precise formulation of a particular drug, medicine to running the power grid to building or managing the […]
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It’s an amazing time to be involved in manufacturing. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is providing opportunities to transform businesses quicker than ever before and, potentially, at a fraction of the cost. This is exactly what we’re striving to do at my startup company, pointFASE. We aim to provide low-cost software that makes it […]
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Brian is a tech entrepreneur, Co-Founder of pointFASE and a Consultant specializing in digital transformation for small-to-medium sized manufacturing companies. His company pointFASE is a UK based startup developing low-cost drag and drop automation software to help rapidly introduce the benefits of a connected factory. Having spent more than two decades helping multinational companies increase […]
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The percentage of businesses moving from a traditional physical infrastructure model to a cloud deployment model is increasing year, upon year. While public deployments are rising steadily, private deployments are skyrocketing, and across both, a hybrid deployment model is still accounting for the majority of business centric cloud use. All recent research shares the opinion that this […]
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Changing business models and new regulatory requirements are accelerating the need for IT/OT convergence. IIoT enables unprecedented levels of real-time connectivity, dramatically increasing cybersecurity risks. Industrial control systems on OT networks have different operational requirements that impact the ability to adapt and respond to new threats – and open up new avenues for cyber attacks. […]
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Fatal flaw of predictive IIoT analytics Most predictive analytics suffer from a fatal flaw: they are confined to historical views. Analysts try everything from machine learning (ML) to traditional forecasting to flashy BI dashboards and visualizations in attempts to estimate details about the future of complex business operations: The predictions fail. A wake does not […]
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This year was one of the most intense in terms of cybersecurity attacks affecting industrial control systems. For the first time since Stuxnet, a malicious toolset called CrashOverride/Industroyer targeted physical systems. However, the most significant threat to ICS security in 2017 was ransomware attacks. The WannaCry and Petya attacks appear to have changed forever the […]
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There are many companies out there that promise to deliver “edge computing” for IIoT operations. But what does “edge computing” really mean and what is its underlying value? Why applying edge computing solutions By applying edge computing to streaming data, manufacturers can meet the real-time demands of high-stakes industries and utilities without straining their bottom […]
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Industrial systems’ cybersecurity has become a real concern for many companies since the Industry 4.0 and hyper-connection of equipment grew out. Executives are often unprepared and unarmed to face this new phenomenon. Nowadays, industrial systems make extensive use of information technologies even though they have not been designed to cope with the threats they introduce. […]
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Elodie Perombelon is Communication officer at Cybelius, the first french company dedicated to industrial cybersecurity. Writing with passion and purpose about industrial cybersecurity challenges.
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Matthew C. King develops new innovative solutions in emerging technology spaces. Matt is responsible for evangelizing, designing and assuring success in new technologies, working closely with partners and flagship customers to define these categories. Matt brings over five years of technology experience to FogHorn Systems. He began his career at Talari Networks, formulating the initial […]
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