What could an OT cyberattack cost you?
If there’s one thing every operator, plant manager and OT expert knows, it’s that downtime is never an option. While no company likes to have its IT systems and data on lockdown, there can be devastating…
Articles tagged as cyber attacks
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…
Report Summary: Cyber Attacks on Smart Manufacturing Systems
Smart manufacturing systems are designed and deployed under the assumption that they will be isolated from both the outside world and the rest of the corporate network. On one hand, this does not necessarily mean that…
Maximize IIoT Device Profitability and Customer Satisfaction with Yocto
To maximize IIoT device profitability and customer satisfaction, users can take a few simple steps to augment yocto’s robust platform with tooling to increase security and decrease update frequency, while still maintaining aggressive delivery timelines. Yocto…
Protecting Smart Buildings from Cyber Attacks
It was an attack on a hospital like no other, reported the news in February 2016. The Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center had been hacked. Its services were crippled. As emergency patients were diverted to other area…
Attack Vectors in the… Trillions?
The growing attack surface of the new Industry 4.0 internet is a big problem. On this everyone agrees. But underneath the headlines and the frequent “patch now” warnings from firewall vendors is a more ominous reality…
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…