Personnel responsible for protecting organizational assets within Operations Technology (OT) groups would seem to have the same mission as those responsible for protecting organizational assets within Information Technology (IT) groups, and be tightly aligned. Spending any amount of time with Industrial Control System (ICS) clients, however, shows that is…
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- by Robert J. Michalsky
- Thursday, December 13, 2018
- Industrial Cybersecurity
Bridging the OT / IT Cybersecurity Gap
- by Michael Medoff , CFSE, CISA
- Tuesday, October 16, 2012
- Industrial Cybersecurity
Pen Testing a Live Control System – Are You Mad?
A recent, disturbing trend I’ve seen in industrial control system (ICS) security is that, in response to concerns about the security of their ICS & SCADA systems, companies are performing penetration (pen) testing on operational systems. Often times they request these services as one of the first steps in…
- by Jeff Davis
- Thursday, June 06, 2019
- Industrial Cybersecurity
SCRUM and IEC 62443
Information Technology (IT) is the personnel, hardware, and software that controls non-physical devices and/or processes such as websites, financial data, personal information, etc.
Operation Technology (OT) is the personnel, hardware, and software that controls physical devices and/or processes such as manufacturing, oil & gas, power, etc. Today, OT has many…
- by Robert J. Michalsky
- Wednesday, February 13, 2019
- Industrial Cybersecurity
What can OT learn from IT data breaches?
Does your organization even have a CISO position?
Cybersecurity continues to be an overlooked aspect in organizations—including those owning ICS (Industrial Control System) production facilities. Anyone following the news has most assuredly heard of the plethora of massive data breaches that organizations have endured over the last…