The National Security Agency (NSA) has announced its intention to create a cybersecurity directorate this fall in a bid to defend the U.S. against foreign adversaries. It comes at a time of increasing election interference by foreign nations such as Russia as part of an ongoing strategy to destabilize the West. According Read more…
During the Cold war we had thousands and thousands of inter-continental ballistic missiles with the potential power to destroy the world, and still do. In today’s reality, on top of that, countries and nation states now have the potential power to cyber attack infrastructure and legacy networks that can take Read more…
Splunk this week unveiled a new solution designed to help industrial organizations protect control systems, monitor and diagnose equipment, and predict downtimes. Splunk for Industrial IoT, expected to become available on October 30, combines the capabilities of Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Industrial Asset Intelligence, and the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit. Splunk Read more…
Auditors Claim Critical Cyber Security Problems In U.S. Weapons Systems Almost all of the U.S. military’s newly developed weapons systems suffer from “mission-critical cyber security vulnerabilities,” a review of government security audits conducted from 2012 to 2017 found, suggesting military agencies have rushed to computerize new weapons systems without prioritizing Read more…
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Market: Global Industry Analysis, Market Size, Share, Trends, Application Analysis and Growth by Forecast to 2018-2022 Industrial control systems is the term includes few types of control systems such as Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, and Programmable Logic Controllers Read more…
The Convergence of Cybersecurity Certification and Process Safety For end users of process safety systems, cybersecurity certification should be a primary concern, especially after the costly TRITON/TRISIS malware incident that happened in the Middle East this past year. The emergence of TRITON/TRISIS adds a new dimension to the discussion of Read more…
The emergence of cyber threats is forcing the industrial sector to take a long, hard look at how industrial control systems (ICS), are protected. The increase in the number of cyber incidents on ICS networks has become a reality we can no longer ignore. Yet, ICS networks pose unique challenges to security professionals, primarily Read more…
Industrial Control System attacks and SCADA system attacks are growing and so is the concern. Many ICS’s are antiquated or un-patched versions of Windows operating systems. Why are attackers targeting ICS? The damage or consequences can be high, everybody knows the result of shutting down a power plant even if Read more…
What do we currently know about SCADA and ICS Cyber Threats? What are the SCADA-Specific Malwares out there and how vulnerable are industrial targets? Overview of SCADA systems In one of the most important sectors of cyber security is what most people NOT in security rarely hear about. SCADA (Supervisory Read more…
Definition Of SCADA Security Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) networks are widely used in modern industrial organizations to monitor and analyze real-time data, control both local and remote industrial processes, interact with devices, and log data and events for auditing and other purposes. Because SCADA networks are vital to Read more…