Cybersecurity

The 6 Biggest Cybersecurity Risks Facing the Utilities Industry
A look at cybersecurity in the utilities industry and findings from a 2019 ABI Research paper looking into the cybersecurity risks in utility industrial control systems with data on smart infrastructure investments and the gap with cybersecurity initiatives. By 2023, connected utility infrastructure will have essentially doubled in size, exposing...
C-level executives are increasingly targeted by cyber criminals with financially-motivated social engineering attacks according to the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). Cybersecurity needs active management awareness, attention, buy-in and involvement. The consequences of attacks simply are too important, no digital transformation projects can succeed without it and on...
SCADA HMI security concept
SCADA systems and cybersecurity: it remains a challenge and according to ample research even one of the major restraining elements in SCADA market growth. While being a multi-faceted challenge, one of the many means through which attackers infiltrate SCADA systems is the Human Machine Interface (HMI). With HMI/SCADA software being in...