Preparing for Shadow OT: A Hospital Case Study

The convergence of IT and OT is happening more rapidly than IT expects. Once upon a time, IT was so expensive that enterprises built entire departments to prioritize spending and efficiently manage those costly investments. Now, IT is so inexpensive that any individual who wants IT can buy it or...

Podcast: The Industrial World is Facing a Security Crisis

As more industrial systems become connected, so follows increased awareness of security issues surrounding industrial control systems, programmable logic controllers and SCADA. These once rare worlds of operational technology OT and IoT have now become part of the mainstream cybersecurity...

Do not scan operational technology devices

The remote host appears to be operational technology device. Such devices often react very poorly when scanned. To avoid problems, Nessus will not continue to scan this device unless the scan policy is configured to scan OT devices. If you would like to safely assess security vulnerabilities on...

Securing the Three Families of IoT

Securing the Internet of Things is difficult. One reason is the Internet of things consists of three different groups of technology. Each group has radically different architectural constraints. Securing each group requires a distinct approach. IoT 0.9 The primitive group contains all legacy...

Schneider Electric Modicon PLC Multiple Authentication Bypass Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-04918)

Modicon PLCs are programmable controller products used in industries such as dams, energy, food and agriculture, and more. A multiple authentication bypass vulnerability exists in the Schneider Electric Modicon PLC, where an attacker accessing the OT network could intercept traffic to the target...