At the beginning of this year, Industrial Cyber reported that “The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released six industrial control systems (ICS) advisories and updated an ICS medical advisory, issuing cybersecurity advisories to the critical infrastructure sector about hardware vulnerabilities.” While the advisory spoke to specific vulnerabilities, it also reflected a larger trend in our industry, which is the rising cybersecurity threat to hardware and OT.
Ongoing Separation Between Hardware Operators and Cybersecurity
One of the biggest challenges that we still encounter when working with clients or speaking to others in manufacturing or critical infrastructure sectors is that the people who are working with industrial ruggedized solutions are not involved in cybersecurity. They’re still just operating in the hardware lane. However, we know that they can no longer work in this type of silo. Cybersecurity for OT and critical infrastructure systems is essential and appears in many efforts, including a recent policy recommendation released by the National Security Agency regarding smart controller devices installed for operational technology in national security systems. The primary driver for this increase is that combining IT and OT systems is becoming increasingly more mainstream and is exposing OT systems more than ever before.
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