The business benefits of digital transformation in grid operations are tremendous, but this progress increases cyber risk to Operations Technology (OT) in the areas of safety, unscheduled downtime, and negative impact on corporate brand.
The good news is that there are practical steps utilities can take to enhance...
How many ways do U.S. businesses need to be told to lock down their systems to safeguard themselves from ransomware? That's the focus of a new, joint cybersecurity advisory from the U.S. government pertaining to BlackMatter, following an advisory issued last month about Conti.
To reduce risk, security and risk management leaders should eliminate IT and OT silos by creating a single digital security and risk management function. This function should report into IT but should have responsibility for all IT and OT security.
Integrating operational technology (OT) threat monitoring into...
The OT security world continues to change to meet new challenges and threats. The 2021 SANS OT/ICS Cybersecurity survey explores how OT defenders across all industries are meeting these challenges and looks to areas where new emphasis can be placed to defend our critical infrastructure as we move forward.
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In an effort to bolster endpoint protection within the U.S. government, the White House is ordering federal agencies to allow CISA to access existing deployments. It is also setting timelines for improving the protection of workstations, mobile phones and servers.
The Central Electricity Authority has released a new set of cybersecurity guidelines for the power sector, aimed at securing OT systems and building a resilient security framework. It mandates, among other things, that all power sector companies appoint a dedicated CISO to secure systems.
Criminal hackers don't break for lunches, weekends or holidays. Of course, that's just one of many challenges facing information security teams, as they attempt to maximize visibility and minimize complexity while protecting their business around the clock, says Peter Van Lierde, the CISO of energy firm Sibelga.
Some 14,000 Google users were warned of being suspected targets of Russian government-backed threat actors on Thursday. The next day, the tech giant announced cybersecurity updates - particularly for email accounts of high-profile users, including politicians and journalists.
As the risks to IT and OT converge, organizations must use "zero trust" to verify user identities and build effective monitoring capabilities to track the behavior of privileged users, say Kartik Shahani of Tenable and Rohan Vaidya of CyberArk.
The cybersecurity firm IronNet, founded and led by retired Army Gen. Keith Alexander, has gone public without an IPO by merging with LGL Systems Acquisitions Corp., a "blank check" shell company formed to handle such mergers. Meanwhile, Checkpoint has announced plans to acquire the email security firm Avanan.
A vulnerability in Microsoft Azure's database service Cosmos DB has potentially put at risk thousands of Azure customers, including many Fortune 500 companies, according to the security firm Wiz. Microsoft has mitigated the flaw.
In the latest weekly update, four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss timely cybersecurity issues, including cryptocurrency exchange hacks and the cyber implications of the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul.
How can XDR help mitigate ransomware risks? Two experts - Assad Arabi, managing director, gulf cluster region, at Trend Micro, and Andrew Philp, sales leader at the company - offer insights.
Researchers at cybersecurity company Trend Micro have uncovered a new cyberespionage campaign in the Indo-Pacific region by Chinese advanced persistent threat group APT41, also known as Earth Baku.
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