Industry 4.0: CNC Machine Security Risks Part 3

This three-part blog series explores the risks associated with CNC machines...

Industry 4.0: CNC Machine Security Risks Part 2

This three-part blog series explores the risks associated with CNC machines...

Industry 4.0: CNC Machine Security Risks Part 1

This three-part blog series explores the risks associated with CNC machines...

Uncovering Security Blind Spots in CNC Machines

Industry 4.0 has given rise to smart factories that have markedly improved machining processes, but it has also opened the doors for cybercriminals looking to abuse networked industrial equipment such as CNC machines. Our research investigates potential cyberthreats to CNC machines and how...

Newark Releases Latest Global IoT Trends Report

The latest trend report also said that security concerns negatively impact the adoption of IoT technologies and the growth of Industry 4.0...

Trend Micro + ROS-I: Building a more secure future

Trend Micro joins ROS-I Consortium to help accelerate the secure development of robotic Industry 4.0 applications...

Siemens USA CISO: 3 essentials to look for in a cloud provider

In the latest episode of my series, The Shiproom, I spoke with Kurt John, Chief Cybersecurity Officer CISO at Siemens USA. Kurt is listed in Security Magazine’s Top 10 most influential cybersecurity leaders, and he also serves on a special cybersecurity committee organized by the...

Siemens USA CISO: 3 essentials to look for in a cloud provider

In the latest episode of my series, The Shiproom, I spoke with Kurt John, Chief Cybersecurity Officer CISO at Siemens USA. Kurt is listed in Security Magazine’s Top 10 most influential cybersecurity leaders, and he also serves on a special cybersecurity committee organized by the...

Securing Smart Manufacturing

“Alexa, turn on the TV.” ”Get it yourself.” This nightmare scenario could play out millions of times unless people take steps to protect their IoT devices. The situation is even worse in industrial settings. Smart manufacturing, that is, Industry 4.0, relies on tight integration between IT system...

Essential Strategies for Securing Smart Factories

With Industry 4.0, manufacturing organizations need to recognize the unique threats and risks facing them, and strategize towards addressing them...

Hacking Construction Cranes

Construction cranes are vulnerable to hacking: In our research and vulnerability discoveries, we found that weaknesses in the controllers can be easily taken advantage of to move full-sized machines such as cranes used in construction sites and factories. In the different attack classes that we'v...

Securing Smart Manufacturing with Connected Threat Defense

By David Tay, the CIO of Beyonics You’d be hard pushed to find any organization today not involved in digital transformation projects. But the manufacturing sector was arguably one of the first to the game. Back in 2011, the German government first coined the term Industry 4.0 to describe the...

Threatlist: Manufacturing, a Top Target for Espionage

When it comes to cyberattack-related reconnaissance and lateral movement activity, the manufacturing industry exhibits higher than normal rates. That’s according to Vectra’s 2018 Spotlight Report on Manufacturing, which crunched data from more than 4 million devices and workloads from customer...

Don't let your factory plant become the next cybersecurity victim

In 2014, a smart refrigerator had been caught red-handed for spawning over 750,000 spam emails after hijacked by a botnet attack. It is the first documented attack worldwide for Internet of Things to have fallen prey to hackersi. A more recent case in the US concerns an internet connected...

How the Industry 4.0 Era Will Change the Cybersecurity Landscape

Today’s highly automated and connected smart factories Industry 4.0 were born out of yesterday’s steam engines that mechanized manufacturing Industry 1.0; mass-production lines expanded with the advent of electricity Industry 2.0; and then IT-enabled manufacturing plants ushered in the era of...