OT Security - Everything You Need To Know -Most enterprises know that cyberattacks in the information security realm are continuously growing in sophistication, severity and... -
Most enterprises know that cyberattacks in the information security realm are continuously growing in sophistication, severity and number. However, up until now, many organisations that run plants, factories, pipelines and other infrastructure have paid less attention to the threats they face in the realm of operational technology .
As these examples show, OT attacks can be even more serious in nature than information security breaches because of the level of economic upheaval, supply chain disruption and human harm they can cause. This has promptedto warn that attackers may have ‘weaponised’ OT environments to hurt or kill people by 2025.
Yet OT security remains neglected in many organisations because the engineers in the OT environment usually don’t have much background in cybersecurity, while IT teams tend to regard OT as outside their responsibility and core competence. On a technical level, OT uses vendors, technologies, platforms and protocols that are unfamiliar to IT professionals. Plus, OT networks were, in the past, run independently of IT networks and were usually not connected to the Internet.
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