How the Malware Dumpster Became Post-industrial Landfill For companies involved in critical infrastructure or any facet of manufacturing processes, one of the big action items today is securing OT. For the very first time, the security…
Although WannaCry and Petya did not specifically target industrial networks, they did reach them. Many IT leaders and their board of directors responded in panic. The incidents raised the profile of how malware can move to ICS environments. It opened up perspective…
Why IoTs have created a security crisis and strained the communications infrastructure along the way. Quick Hit Points: Mobile phone markets are completely saturated, yet the IoT market, in its infancy, still outnumbers mobile phones 2:1…
Network Effects are Powerful Since the early days of TCP/IP, connectivity-driven convergence has created waves of multi-billion dollar markets, seemingly out of thin air. All of the successes thus far have had one thing in common:…
Find out how Penn State securely connected and isolated their building controls across 640 buildings in record time, using IIoT micro-segmentation. Download this case study sponsored by Tempered Networks. Tom Walker, system design specialist, leads the FAS group which is…
I had the honor of speaking on IoT security policy at the annual CyberNextDC conference organized by the Cybersecurity Coalition. As the number of connected devices grows and these devices are increasingly used to perpetrate “botnets”,…
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…
Cyber-attacks are a daily occurrence. While the largest attacks make intermittent headlines, the attacks as a whole are unrelenting. Day after day, hour after hour, our computer and network infrastructure, both enterprise and personal, are probed,…
As industrial technology advances, manufacturers are increasingly using cloud, data analytics and mobile to improve their connectivity and infrastructure. This means a larger attack surface which creates a rich target for threats that cause physical damage,…
Usability vs. Security The “Goldilocks and the three bears” story begins with a girl tasting porridge. The first bowl is too hot, the second is too cold, and the third is “just right.” This article considers…
Today’s sophisticated Operations Technology (OT) environments have a large attack surface with numerous attack vectors. Without complete coverage, the likelihood of getting attacked is not a matter of ‘if’; it’s a matter of ‘when’. Security for OT…
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…