Let’s be clear: the natural gas explosions that rocked the Merrimack Valley north of Boston in September weren’t the result of a cyber attack. Unfortunately: well known vulnerabilities affecting the security of remote sensors and industrial control system software mean they easily could have been.
Chris Walcutt, the CSO at DirectDefense talks about the rapidly changing threat landscape that critical infrastructure owners and operators inhabit, and how savvy firms are managing OT cyber risks.
Dragos Security on Wednesday unveiled a “Community Defense Program” to provide free cybersecurity software for small utilities providing water, electric, and natural gas in the United States.
A school that never sleeps? Cameras that go dark? A dead company hacked back to life? Welcome to the growing Internet of Zombie devices that threatens the security of the Internet.
Getting a start-up off the ground isn’t easy in the best of times. Now imagine doing it just as a global pandemic is shutting down society…and the economy. Our guest this week, Josh McCarthy of Revelstoke Security, did it and lived to tell the tale.
