4 Aug 2025 | A Year In OT Security
Many OT security professionals have busted the airgap myth by asking questions on how software or firmware updates, schedules, recipes, anti-virus signatures, or applications are brought into the OT environment. They often are brought in through the approved OT...
28 Jul 2025 | A Year In OT Security
Your task this week will vary based on the type of system you operate. Asset owners with SCADA have more work this week. SCADA Systems SCADA systems monitoring and controlling geographically dispersed systems, such as pipelines, electric grids, and water delivery,...
21 Jul 2025 | A Year In OT Security
Predictive maintenance, efficiency studies and controls, security monitoring, and other cloud services can offer real benefits to asset owners. This trend of vendors offering, and asset owners using, cloud services is almost certain to increase. The challenge is to...
14 Jul 2025 | A Year In OT Security
Now that your OT remote access is secured, determine if the allowed remote access is necessary. Ideally user interactive remote access to OT for the purpose of performing control or administration should be rare. If this is the case, consider if it’s feasible to have...
7 Jul 2025 | A Year In OT Security
Most of the targeted, OT specific attacks, where the adversary has lived on the OT for many months, began with a compromise of remote access to OT. The limited OT cyber incident data we have clearly shows that multi-factor authentication (MFA) for OT remote access is...
