OT Security Blog Articles

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...

What if I told you that this alleged shortage isn’t actually one at all? It is a false perception brought about by outdated framing of OT security in the twenty-first century. 

The process of navigating this transition is not an easy one; however, if you have the right guidance and the right tool, you can be up and running in no time at all. 

If you have tackled vulnerability management in OT, chances are you ended up in frustration. It is virtually impossible to keep up with the constant stream of new vulnerabilities. Why? Because in OT, we are faced with a huge cost for installing security patches and...