Cybersecurity
Five cybersecurity experts about CrashOverride malware: main dangers and lessons for IIoT
CrashOverride, also called Industroyer, is an extensible Industrial Control Systems attack platform that ESET and Dragos reported was used against critical infrastructure in Ukraine. The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) worked with partners to…
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
Protecting Industrial Control Systems from cyber attacks presents four distinct challenges, according to Barak Perelman, CEO of Indegy, in an interview with IIoT World Managing Editor Lucian Fogoros. ICS technologies predate cyber defenses, having been built…
CEO Insights with Dr. Ulrich Lang: Customers are not aware yet of ICS security risks that IIoT Apps bring
IIoT applications introduce serious ICS security risks to manufacturing, energy, oil and gas, chemical, and transportation industries, according to Dr. Ulrich Lang, Co-founder and CEO of ObjectSecurity. In this interview, Dr. Lang explains that most customers…
The impact of WannaCry on industrial control systems (ICS)
WannaCry ransomware, which exploited the Microsoft SMBv1 vulnerability known as MS17-010, posed a severe threat to industrial control systems (ICS). Brad Hegrat, IOActive's Director of Advisory Services, warns that ICS environments are especially vulnerable because NetBIOS…
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?
Industrial companies are flying blind on 80% of their cyber assets, according to Eddie Habibi, CEO of PAS. In this CEO IIoT Insights interview with IIoT World, Habibi outlines why most industrial organizations lack visibility into…
Two Reasons for the ICS Cybersecurity Deficiency
Two root causes drive the ICS cybersecurity deficiency: a critical shortage of skilled workers and a siloed approach separating operational technology (OT) security from information technology (IT) security. Gartner projections show over 209,000 unfilled U.S. cybersecurity…
A solution to keep water clean from cyber attacks
Firewalls are not a sufficient security solution for protecting water and wastewater facility SCADA systems from cyberattacks, according to Lior Frenkel, CEO of Waterfall Security Solutions. The primary sources of cyber risk are wide-area networks (WANs)…
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 &…