Critical Infrastructure Security

Has your organization initiated a risk assessment and created a threat model that would have covered some of the following incidents over the last two years? The local branch of a shipping company updates the accounting application that is dominant in their region. With the updated application, they…

It’s Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, but I think we can all agree that the topic at hand is, uh, more of a long-term necessity. About 85 percent of the nation’s critical infrastructures are privately owned and operated, as cited in NIST’s SP 800-82 Guide to I…

Critical infrastructure providers are increasingly implementing IoT systems to support, augment, or update their already networked  operational technology.  Further, critical infrastructure is often managed and deployed over connected systems supported or used by mobile professionals.  At the same t…

We know critical infrastructure is vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Widely discussed for more than a decade, the risk is well known to both the public and to risk management and cybersecurity experts. With the rising wave of global Digitization, Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)…

As cyberattack prevention becomes an increasingly critical focus of homeland security efforts, industry observers are taking a closer look at the readiness of the nation’s critical infrastructure. Some believe there is reason to worry. Researchers recently revealed that many industrial systems, incl…