Cybersecurity
Protecting IT and OT Resources Against Advanced Threats in Manufacturing
Manufacturing organizations manage expensive and sophisticated equipment at their factories—and the systems that run the machinery are increasingly being connected to the internet. The cybersecurity implications of this trend are significant, including possible threats to physical…
How Industrial Control Systems can be secure in the cloud
Last month, a major water utilities firm in the UK revealed plans to move a significant part of their SCADA system to the cloud. This is one of the most high-profile transitions of OT to managed cloud services…
How will US sanctions on the group behind TRITON protect critical infrastructure?
In late October 2020, the US Federal Government announced plans to impose sanctions on a Russian research institute that has been linked with cyber-attacks. The institute is alleged to have played a part in building the customized tools…
Cybersecurity for Shared Cloud Environments
In its recent Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) research note, Gartner identified memory exploit protection as an essential component of any organization’s CWP strategy (Gartner, Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, 2020): “Exploit Prevention/Memory Protection–application control solutions are…
Security Risks Are Slowing IT-OT Convergence
Fortinet has worked with Forrester Consulting for a third time to check in on security trends affecting those who manage and maintain critical infrastructure—including the industrial control systems (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)…
Protecting Traditional Stand Alone OT Systems As They Are Introduced To The IIoT
Re-Emagineering the CyberSecurity driven convergence of OT to IIOT The exploitation and sabotage of resources has been a concern to mission critical operations since the dawn of the industrial age. With the advancement of Information Technology…
Cybersecurity Tactics to Prevent Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that prevents or limits users from accessing their system, either by locking the system's screen or by locking the users' files unless a ransom is paid. More modern ransomware families, collectively…
The Immune System Approach – Cyber AI for Industrial Control Systems
The practice of cyber security has changed dramatically in the past few years, presenting a significant challenge to management teams across all industries and business domains. As IT security teams become accountable for securing Operational Technology…
Cybersecurity Tactics to Reduce ICS Software Supply Chain Risk
Supply chain attacks like the recent SolarWinds hack are now front-page news, and cybersecurity steps must be taken to reduce the risk these attacks pose to critical systems. A platform that enables end users to manage…
The Clock is Ticking for a New Cyber Security Strategy
President Biden is walking into an embattled and in some ways grim cyber security picture. As we know, the end of 2020 brought to our attention a months-long global cyber-espionage campaign, The broader public will almost…
[White Paper]Protecting the Embedded and IoT Software Build Environment with Software Composition Analysis
Ensuring the quality, reliability and safety of software requires navigating a complex supply chain made up of engineers, operations managers, contractors, and independent software vendors (ISVs), along with open source software (OSS) providers. Oftentimes, device manufacturers…
After a Cybersecurity Attack Like SolarWinds: Rebuilding a Network
In a recent article in The Guardian regarding the SolarWinds cybersecurity attack, security technologist Bruce Schneier said, "We have a serious problem. We don't know what networks they are in, how deep they are, what access they have,…