Cyberattacks against operational technology in critical infrastructure facilities and chemistry research institutes have grown significantly in frequency and complexity across industries recently. Cyber threats to industrial safety systems, physical safety systems, and other industrial control systems are now at the forefront of national security concerns as geopolitical tensions are reflected…

Operational Technology(OT) cybersecurity has become a hot topic in plant facilities also known as OT, Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS), Integrated Control Systems (ICS), etc. The ability to defend against the cyberattack in the IT systems and buffer the OT systems from impact is once again on the headline. …

Legacy security controls, tools, and practices cannot address OT and IoT devices’ vulnerabilities. Visibility is a fundamental cybersecurity strategy to protect networks, transient assets, and information. In OT cybersecurity, asset management is the most critical part. Understand the security challenges with OT asset inventory: Complex systems across OT asset inventory…

Introduction Massive hacks, data breaches, digital scams, and ransomware assaults continued apace during the first half of this challenging year, making the first six months of 2022 seem interminable or fleeting — or both. …

Recent cyber-attacks against Ukraine’s infrastructure, including evidence of destructive malware like WhisperGate and HermeticWiper, and the Russian invasion has drawn considerable attention from the cybersecurity community. IT Governance UK recorded 83 data breaches and 5,127,241 cyberattacks In February 2022, which shows that infrastructural security around the globe is on the…

Zero Trust is a security model developed by former Forrester analyst John Kindervag in 2010. Since then, the “zero trust” model has become the most popular concept in the field of cybersecurity. …

SD-WAN in 2 Minutes SD-WAN, or software-defined wide-area networking, is a programmatic, automated solution to regulating business network connection and circuit charges. It integrates software-defined networking (SDN) into a platform that companies can use to swiftly set up a smart hybrid WAN. SD-WANs control communication, management, and services between data centers and distant branches…

FBI warns of BlackCat ransomware that breached Over 60 Organisations Worldwide FBI reported Blackcat malware, a Ransomware as a service (RaaS), was released by Darkside/Blackmatter. The variant ransomware ALPHV and Noberus, are the first-ever malware written in the Rust programming language. BlackCat’s methods include data theft prior to the encryption of client files. The hacker uses stolen credentials prior to executing…

Recognizing the threat to data backup and restore systems Backing and restoring data is one of several adaptive controls organizations can use to deal with ransomware. Several industry leading backup solutions, including Veeam, Commvault, and Rubrik offer this capability. These solutions use several functions, including artificial intelligence and machine learning to protect against ransomware. …