Lucian Fogoros: How would you rate the level of cybersecurity awareness among industry in general? What level of uptake do you see regarding the level of cybersecurity best practices and systems? Joseph Saunders: With the many reported attacks on utilities, SCADA systems, and operational technology, I’d have to say that the level of cybersecurity awareness […]
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Hackers are having increasing success penetrating the operating technology and industrial control systems underpinning data centers, utilities, manufacturing plants. As organizations incorporate smart devices, connect to the Internet of Things, and utilize the cloud to optimize performance, new attack vectors – and cyber vulnerabilities – are created. Skilled cybercriminals only need to find a single […]
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More than half (54%) of the world’s current population resides in urban areas compared with just 30% in the 1950s. In 2009, the global population was estimated at 6.8 billion —around 3.7 billion lived in urban areas. By 2050, 66% of all people will be urban dwellers. Urbanization does not always occur organically. To accelerate […]
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The inconvenient truth is that our current cybersecurity tools and methods are not a match for today’s sophisticated attackers who will target any exposed surface looking for vulnerabilities. Attackers need to only succeed once, while defenders must successfully protect their systems every time against all possible threats. Even the most security-conscious organizations aren’t immune to […]
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With the inter-connectivity of devices becoming ever more present in our lives, it’s vital to bring security standards up to par. In the automotive industry, this can be especially difficult owing to its many unique properties that make the problems of automotive security unique to the industry. Considering how different automotive domain is from all […]
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On an almost weekly basis, another organization or government agency owns up to having been “hacked” – admitting that its systems have been breached. For every company that discloses an issue, there are likely 20 – 30 more that keep it under wraps. We know this because more than half of all U.S. businesses have been hacked. […]
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RunSafe Security, the pioneer of a patented cyberhardening process for vulnerable embedded systems, devices and industrial control systems (ICS), has announced the commercial availability of Alkemist, a proprietary self-service technology built to reduce vulnerabilities and deny malware the uniformity needed to execute. Previously known as Software Guardian, Alkemist uses remotely deployable software binary runtime application self-protection […]
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Why Industrial Operations are not Immune Recently, US intelligence chief Dan Coats remarked in a talk at the Hudson Institute that ‘the warning lights are blinking red again’ on cyber attacks, as they were before the Sept 11 attacks in 2001. While Coats addressed most of his comments to the country’s digital infrastructure, he mentioned […]
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As the automotive industry adds more software and connections into vehicles, it simultaneously increases the probability of cyberattacks due to vulnerabilities. Right now, the average car has about 100 million lines of software code and 100 electronic control unit (ECUs), both of which provide hackers with a vast attack surface. And those two numbers are […]
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Most industrial organizations still consider their ICS networks to be safe from common cyber threats that mainly target IT networks. However, two recent cryptocurrency mining incidents demonstrate that ICS networks are not “sterile” from unwanted software. Moreover, the fact that these cyber incidents took place at critical infrastructure facilities in Europe and Russia shatters the myth that […]
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Renewable resources are good for the environment and reduce consumer costs but they are not a panacea to reducing electric grid cyber threats despite the prevailing view by many that renewable resources can reduce the cyber threat to electric utilities. I did a walkdown of several utility-scale solar facilities. Consider your roof-top solar system and […]
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The current landscape Cyberattacks targeting power grids and manufacturing plants in Europe over the past two years led me to believe that we would see the first major cyberattack on U.S. critical infrastructure in 2018. At the mid-year mark my prediction has already become a reality. The recent cyberattack in Atlanta destabilized municipal operations and […]
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