Five cybersecurity experts about CrashOverride malware: main dangers and lessons for IIoT
The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) is aware of public reports from ESET and Dragos outlining a new, highly capable Industrial Controls Systems (ICS) attack platform that was reportedly used in 2016 against critical…
Addressing the Threat of Ransomware
Recently there was a global ransomware cyberattack as never seen before. This single attack affected more than 200 000 computers and wreaked havoc on financial institutions, healthcare organizations and transportation to name just a few. This…
The Industrial Internet of Things & Network Security Standards
Just about everything is connected: from cell phones and wearable devices to cars, refrigerators and industrial equipment. IT experts have long recognized this global connectivity will only continue to skyrocket. Connectivity adds convenience to our jobs.…
CEO Insights: Four major challenges in protecting ICS from cyber attacks
As part of the CEO Insights Series, IIoT World’s Managing Editor, Lucian Fogoros, interviews Indegy’s CEO, Barak Perelman, about the major challenges in protecting ICS from cyber attacks and the best defenses against cyber threats in…
CEO Insights with Dr. Ulrich Lang: Customers are not aware yet of ICS security risks that IIoT Apps bring
IIoT applications bring many ICS security risks to critical industries like manufacturing, energy, oil and gas, chemical, transportation. As a part of CEO Insights, Dr. Ulrich Lang, Co-founder and CEO of ObjectSecurity, explains what are the…
The impact of WannaCry on industrial control systems (ICS)
As the WannaCry ransomware (MS17-010) has spread globally in the last 24 hours and severely impacted the National Health System and locked hospital workers out of critical healthcare patient data, Brad Hegrat, IOActive’s Director of Advisory Services,…
Using DNS to Defend Against IoT Botnets
Sometimes cyberattacks come from a direction you weren’t really expecting. We all know about threats from ransomware, nation-state actors, industrial espionage, or hacker collectives looking for personally-identifiable information (particularly for credit cards). But we probably weren’t…
2017 – the “silence before the storm” when it comes to ICS breaches
Cyberespionage is now the most common type of attack seen in manufacturing, the public sector and now education, warns the Verizon 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report, which was published a week ago. Much of this is…
CEO IIoT Insights: How can you secure what you cannot see in an industrial enterprise?
As part of the CEO IIoT Insights Series, IIoT World’s Managing Editor, Lucian Fogoros, interviews the CEO of PAS, Eddie Habibi, about cybersecurity risks facing industrial companies in IIoT era.Lucian Fogoros: How would you characterize the…
Two Reasons for the ICS Cybersecurity Deficiency
When it comes to industrial cybersecurity; governments know they need to improve it, industry knows it needs to better understand it, and system integrators/automation vendors know they need to offer it. If you fall within any…
A solution to keep water clean from cyber attacks
The primary source for cyber risks in water and waste management facilities comes from the use of wide-area-networks (WANs) for monitoring and the collection of data. A typical water site has two primary WAN connections: One to the…
ICS Security Lags In U.S. Oil And Gas Industry
A research from the Ponemon Institute finds digitalization in U.S. Oil and Gas operations is seriously outpacing cybersecurity measures and that’s creating an undeniable risk to operational security. In “The State of Cybersecurity in the Oil &…