Forrester: Ransomware Set to Resurge As Firms Pay Off Attacks

SAN FRANCISCO – Ransomware may be poised to return as a top scourge for companies, as more and more of them pay up after an attack in an effort to minimize the cost of recovery. That’s just one insight gleaned from an interview at RSA Conference 2019 last week with Josh Zelonis, senior analyst at...

Know What’s on Your Network at All Times with Qualys Asset Inventory

Qualys has just launched a global IT asset inventory solution that offers full visibility across even the most hybrid, complex and distributed IT environments, addressing a challenge many security and IT teams face today. When IT directors and CISOs look at their digitally transformed networks,...

Global IT Asset Inventory: The Foundation for Security and Compliance

Pablo Quiroga, Qualys’ Director of Product Management for IT Asset Management, talks about the new Asset Inventory solution When IT directors and CISOs look at their digitally transformed networks, they encounter many shadows that their legacy enterprise software tools can’t illuminate. These bli...

Managing the Risk of IT-OT Convergence

A few years ago, it wasn’t easy getting executives on board with the concept of operational technology OT security. Having finally come around to acknowledging the need for information technology IT security, boards and C-suite executives at industrial enterprises were then faced with the...

Securing the Convergence of IT with OT

The Industrial Internet of Things IIoT is the leading edge of the convergence of Operational Technology OT with IT. This convergence begins with network connectivity but requires enhancements in operational procedures, technology, and training as well. Beginning with the network, IT and OT use...

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...