The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) poses direct questions for ICS cybersecurity standards. The ISA99 committee, which governs the ISA and IEC 62443 series, has identified over 500 normative security requirements, with at least 125 addressing…
Securing Industrial IoT (IIoT) is harder than securing traditional IT systems because IIoT devices, which include Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Operational Technology (OT), building automation, sensors, and embedded systems, follow no single security standard. They often…
What Are Digital Twins? A digital twin is a digital representation of a physical object. Simple cases involve sensor readings such as temperature or RPMs, while complex cases cover expensive capital assets including diesel engines, turbines,…
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…
5G is scheduled to come in 2020. This post discusses NB-IoT use cases and its technical aspects that make it so important for the Internet of Things. NB-IoT, also known as LTE Cat NB1, is about…
As we are moving towards autonomous world – the lines have started blurring between machines and human. As more and more machines are taking control of the real-life situations, the topic related to Industrial IoT law,…
As part of the CEO Insights Series, IIoT World's Managing Editor, Lucian Fogoros, interviews the CEO of Waterfall Security Solutions, Lior Frenkel, about ICS security, IT/OT divide and the solutions to prevent an ICS cyber incident.…
Today, companies in many heavy industries such as manufacturing, power generation, oil & gas, renewables, metals, chemicals, and mining are applying predictive maintenance (PdM) techniques to their multi-million dollar global operations to reduce the costs and…
Cybercrime will more than triple the number of job openings over the next 5 years, according to the Cybersecurity Jobs Report, realized by Cybersecurity Ventures. The cybersecurity job forecasts have been unable to keep pace with…
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.…
Nearly 70% of IoT and implicitly IIoT initiatives fail at the Proof of Concept (PoC) stage, according to a recent study by Cisco. Though the number looks high, it resembles the past records of other new initiatives…
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…