Dragos is excited to present the fifth year of the annual Dragos Year In Review report on Industrial Control System (ICS)/ Operational Technology (OT) cyber threats, vulnerabilities, assessments, and incident response observations. The ICS/ OT* community has long suffered from more anecdotes on security than insights driven from data and real-world cases given the sensitivity […]
This independent, global survey of 1,100 information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) security professionals who work full time for enterprises that own, operate, or otherwise support components of critical infrastructure, explores how they have dealt with the significant challenges in 2021, their levels of resiliency, and priorities moving forward. Key findings include: Ransomware is
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Key Findings Organizations with OT environments underestimate the risk of a cyberattack Fifty-six percent of all respondents are highly confident that their organization will not experience an OT breach in the next year, yet 83% said they had at least one OT security breach in the prior 36 months. Seventy-one percent of utilities respondents are
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The first half of 2021 was the biggest test of industrial cybersecurity in history. Many companies are enjoying the fruits of connecting devices to the internet and converging operational technology (OT) under IT systems management. Yet that momentum has also beaconed out to threat actors, particularly those whose trade is extortion and profit. Assets are
Claroty biannual ICS risk & vulnerability report: 1H 2021 Read More »
Manufacturing is one of the most hacked industries in the world, second only to healthcare. As manufacturers modernize their shop floors and set up sophisticated Operational Technology (OT) networks, they are increasingly falling in the crosshairs of determined cyber criminals. In this webinar, we will explore the unique security challenges of distributed manufacturers, including: IP
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Modern day industrial operations often span complex IT (information technology) and OT (operational technology) infrastructures. In a very standard environment, thousands of devices exist and are increasingly being connected via the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). This creates new challenges in securing industrial environments specifically by making cybersecurity threats even more difficult to detect, investigate
Executive Summary As society deals with the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations are accelerating digitization to survive and thrive. This places more focus on operational systems, which are at the heart of value and revenue creation. Adding to challenges, cybersecurity is ranked by executives as the second highest risk to enterprises,1 and attacks
Digital transformation is here to stay and is good for business, but it is also creating greater urgency to bridge the cybersecurity gap between Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT). While IT and OT convergence unlocks business value in terms of operations efficiency, performance, and quality of services, it can also be detrimental because
KEY FINDINGS Cybersecurity issues are prevalent and can put a deal into jeopardy: Over half of respondents (53%) report their organization has encountered a critical cybersecurity issue or incident during an M&A deal that put the deal into jeopardy. Organizations are placing more focus on a target’s cybersecurity posture than they did previously: Eighty-one percent of ITDMs
Executive Summary The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) built a laboratory environment to demonstrate how energy organizations can strengthen their operational technology (OT) asset management practices by leveraging capabilities that may already exist within their operating environment or by implementing new capabilities. As electric utilities
