The key threats facing ICS/OT environments

Industrial control system and operational technology environments are becoming increasingly interconnected and complex, offering efficiency and innovation. However, this also exposes organizations to heightened vulnerabilities from relentless cyber threats. The latest SANS 2023 ICS/OT Cybersecurity Survey, sponsored by critical infrastructure protection specialist OPSWAT, shows the three items of utmost importance for ICS security programs in 2023 have been identified as network visibility, risk assessments, and transient device threat detection. Survey respondents consider current cybersecurity threats to ICS as severe/critical (25 percent) and high (44 percent). They are mainly concerned with,and have experienced, ICS incidents involving malware threats or attackers… [Continue Reading]