The State of Industrial Cybersecurity

The purpose of this survey is to reveal the current state and challenges of industrial cybersecurity, especially in promoting secure smart factories or critical infrastructures. Manufacturing, electric utilities, and oil and gas companies around the world are amid of digitizing their infrastructure and operations for sustainable growth. At the same time, cybersecurity threats that could hinder that growth are becoming a top concern for organizations.

As IT and OT become increasingly interconnected, resilient operations are a critical issue in industrial cybersecurity. Cybersecurity threats execute across these environments in a mixed- technology environment. In contrast, even when attempting to deploy cybersecurity control, ICS/OT environments have different restrictions.

Our study will provide you with tips and best practices for further advancing industrial cybersecurity through understanding the cyber incidents and the implementation state.

Survey Results

1. IMPACTS AND DAMAGES DUE TO CYBERATTACKS

How many organizations are experiencing disruptions due to cyberattacks? Is what we see in the news just the tip of the iceberg? Our study revealed that most organizations in manufacturing, electricity and oil and gas utilities were disrupted with their supply. Moreover, we investigated the duration of the disruption and the amount of financial damage as consequences of those cyberattacks.

Most organizations have impacts on their supply due to cyberattacks.

– 89% of respondents had manufacturing, energy supplies affected due to cyberattacks.

ICS/OT disruptions lasted for 4 days or more in almost half of the organizations.

– 56% of respondents whose ICS/OT was disrupted due to cyberattacks said the disruption lasted 4 or more days. The average duration of the ICS/OT disruption lasted 5 days.

– By industry, oil and gas utility has a relatively large number of respondents (65 %) that experienced disruptions lasting four or more days. On the other hand, the number of respondents in the manufacturing industry was lower (50 %).

– On average by industry, the disruptions lasted 6 days for oil and gas, electricity and 5 days for manufacturing…