OT Security Blog Articles

In the current digital era, the manufacturing and oil and gas industries extensively rely on technology to increase efficiency and productivity. However, as technological dependence increases, so does the risk of cyber attacks and security breaches. For the success of these industries, an effective operational technology (OT) asset inventory is essential.  

Oil and gas companies must use active probing as part of their OT strategy if they want to stay safe, reliable, and efficient. This will give us the visibility, speed, and accuracy we need to find threats and issues quickly, deal with them, and fix them before they become big problems.

Fact is that oftentimes the chances that an asset owner’s investment in ICS Detection technology and related services easily exceeds the damage that could reasonably be expected from a cyber-physical attack.

As we now know, the 2021 cyber incident in Oldsmar, FL was anything but a cyber attack. In reality, an employee mistakenly clicked the wrong buttons, before alerting his superiors to his error, as recently disclosed by a city official. And guess what, the accidental...

Progress requires an objective, a plan to reach that objective, and a means to measure how far you have come. All that is missing in the predominant OT security school of thought is primarily concerned with threat detection. If you spend more resources on that issue, you won’t see less threats; you will see more.

Reliable operation of our critical infrastructure, manufacturing, and other highly automated industries is too important to leave it to companies living off instilling fear, uncertainty, and doubt. It’s time to approach the problem with a more rational, engineering-oriented approach. That’s what OT resilience is all about.

Vulnerability Management: Identifying and assessing vulnerabilities, threats, and risks in OT systems and creating a risk-based inventory and alignment with IT systems. Developing risk management frameworks and plans to proactively mitigate the impact and likelihood...

As the world’s need for more energy sources keeps going up, oil and gas companies must work hard to keep their operations and critical infrastructure running smoothly and safely.

It is a common misconception that in order to secure a system, the most recent vulnerability discovered must be addressed and mitigated. Unfortunately, this idea frequently results in the waste of resources that could instead be applied to vulnerabilities that pose a...