Announcing the general availability of Azure Defender for IoT

As businesses increasingly rely on connected devices to optimize their operations, the number of IoT and Operational Technology OT endpoints is growing dramatically—industry analysts have estimated that CISOs will soon be responsible for an attack surface multiple times larger than just a few yea...

Go inside the new Azure Defender for IoT including CyberX

In 2020, the move toward digital transformation and Industry 4.0 took on new urgency with manufacturing and other critical infrastructure sectors under pressure to increase operational efficiency and reduce costs. But the cybersecurity model for operational technology OT was already shown to be...

From Triton to Stuxnet: Preparing for OT Incident Response

From an irked former contractor in Australia sabotaging a sewage plant in 2000, to the more high-level 2017 Triton malware attacks on Saudi Arabian petrochemical plants, operational technology OT for critical infrastructure has increasingly been a cybersecurity concern. But now, the COVID-19...

NSA and CISA Recommend Immediate Actions to Reduce Exposure Across Operational Technologies and Control Systems

Summary Note: This Activity Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT&CK® framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise and ATT&CK for Industrial Control Systems frameworks for all referenced threat actor techniques and mitigations. Over recent months, cyber actors...

A Hands-On Introduction to Mandiant's Approach to OT Red Teaming

Operational technology OT asset owners have historically considered red teaming of OT and industrial control system ICS networks to be too risky due to the potential for disruptions or adverse impact to production systems. While this mindset has remained largely unchanged for years, Mandiant's...

New Global Threat Landscape Report Reveals 'Unprecedented' Cyberattacks

A newly released threat report, tracking the biggest trends in the cybercriminal landscape, shows that attackers have been capitalizing on the global pandemic in various ways – from ransomware to web-based malware. Derek Manky Derek Manky, Chief, Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at...

Unique Threats to Operational Technology and Cyber Physical Systems

In this latest episode of our Eye on Security podcast, I talk all about the world of operational technology OT and cyber physical systems with one of our foremost experts on the topic: Nathan Brubaker, Senior Manager of Analysis for Mandiant Threat Intelligence. Nathan kicked off our chat by...

Video: Ransomware a Growing Industrial Security Threat

SAN FRANCISCO – Today, Operational Technology OT and Information Technology systems are merging and changing security playbooks. Here at RSA Conference 2020, Waterfall Security‘s CEO and co-founder Lior Frenkel describes the front lines of the convergence. Frenkel maintains that just as more...

The New Year Calls for a Change in the OT Industry’s State of Security

In 2014, a Western European steel mill suffered serious damage from a phishing attack that penetrated its IT and Operational Technology OT networks the software and hardware dedicated to monitoring and controlling physical devices where attackers gained control of plant equipment. In 2018, 74% of...

The FireEye Approach to Operational Technology Security

Today FireEye launches the Cyber Physical Threat Intelligence subscription, which provides cyber security professionals with unmatched context, data and actionable analysis on threats and risk to cyber physical systems. In light of this release, we thought it would be helpful to explain FireEye’s...

Nuclear Satcoms

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear incident in 2011 has led to safety changes that may have an interesting knock-on effect on reactor security. Loss of telemetry during the flooding, as a result of the subsequent loss of power, made assessment of the incident hard to manage. Critical data about the...

How Will Companies Deploy Industrial IoT Security Solutions?

Industrial IoT IIoT devices will comprise the majority of the billions of IoT devices deployed over the next decade. How will the information security market meet this onslaught of technology? The consumer market is not a useful guide for this analysis. Consumers buy in small quantities and choos...