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ICS Security: What It Is and Why It’s a Challenge for Organizations

The State of Security

Industrial control systems (ICS) are specific kinds of assets and associated instrumentation that help to oversee industrial processes. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, there are three common types of ICS.

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Adoption of Secure Cloud Services in Critical Infrastructure

CyberSecurity Insiders

The “move to cloud” presents significant cybersecurity challenges for critical infrastructure related industries, that still put a premium on one element of the C-I-A triad (confidentiality, integrity and availability) over others, namely availability [ii]. Impact to “essential services”.

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Cisco named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: ICS Security

Cisco Security

Interest in industrial control systems (ICS) security has shot up in response to cyberattacks on organizations like the city of Oldsmar’s water utility , Honda , Merck , Maersk , and Johannesburg’s electric utility. Assessing emerging solutions is always challenging—and ICS security is no exception.

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Protecting Industrial Control Systems Against Cyberattacks – Part 3

Security Boulevard

In the third installment of our series, Protecting Industrial Control Systems Against Cyberattacks , we explore additional risk factors and vulnerabilities facing ICS SCADA systems. All organizations contend with the unwanted and troublesome task of patching. All organizations contend with the unwanted and troublesome task of patching.

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Water plant’s missteps illustrates need for critical infrastructure security controls

SC Magazine

Experts say it’s an indicator that operators of critical infrastructure could use a serious infusion of security controls. A security advisory released earlier this week by the state of Massachusetts’s Department of Environmental Protection referred to additional unsafe practices or behaviors at the Bruce T.

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MY TAKE: Cyber attacks on industrial controls, operational technology have only just begun

The Last Watchdog

In today’s geopolitical terrain, nation-state backed cyber criminals are widening their targets and starting to zero in on their adversaries’ business and industrial sectors, using more and more sophisticated weaponry to do so. And the risks are multiplying as more digital devices become connected in insufficiently secured environments.

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What it Takes to Achieve Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

However according to Cybersecurity Challenges of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Past, Present & Future , “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia averagely faces 160,000 cyberattacks daily.” Industrial Control Systems and Devices (ICS) Cybersecurity. Both have changed the parameters of data security in terms of where and how data is stored and used.