Good News: 2020 Cyber Attacks On ICS Led To Very Small Consequences
Want something to feel good about as 2020 draws to a close? The impact of cyber attacks on ICS again this year, and every year since 2001, was very small. Extremely small. This includes financial impact, service impact, safety impact, environmental impact and any...
ICS Detection Product Integration with SIEM and Asset Management Solutions
At S4x19, a detection vendor had one of their customers on the Sponsor Stage to sing the praises of the product. In a moment of candor, the asset owner said the detection vendor’s product was fantastic … but they never looked at their management system...
ICS Detection Market Analysis – Part 2
Since I began seriously covering the ICS Detection Space in 2016, the products were quite similar. They passively listened on switch span ports and taps to: create an asset inventory (and provide vulnerability management but not asset management)detect attacks...
ICS Detection Market – Part 1
Part 1 looks at some of the major changes in the competitors focused primarily on the ICS detection market since the May update. Part 2 comes out next Tuesday and will map out where the competitors stand relative to each other and be a major change to the Tiers...
Security Outcomes in ICS
Cisco recently published their 2021 Security Outcomes Study. It is worth a close look. Not so much for the results and conclusions applicable to the enterprise, but the methodology is worth adopting for the ICS environment. It would be great if ARC or someone...Grateful To Be In ICS Security
Happy Thanksgiving to my US readers. There is much to be thankful for if you are in the ICS security community. In my S4x20 keynote this past January, I contended that this is a great time to be in ICS security. Two months later, COVID shook the world. I know many of...
Chris Krebs Firing Changes What?
Is It Time To Change Mission, Or At Least Expectations, For DHS? President Trump’s firing of CISA Director Chris Krebs on Tuesday served no purpose except for petty vengeance. In just over two months he would not have to deal with Chris or any other appointees....
Ransomware and ICS
Hype And Recovery A woman died in Germany concurrently with a ransomware attack on a hospital, and the media was flooded with articles about ransomware causing its first death. Wired’s article this week, The Untold Story of a Cyber Attack, a Hospital...