Following recent high profile exploits, industrial infrastructure operators such as electricity grids, oil and gas facilities and manufacturing plants are being urged more and more to take steps to fend off ransomware attacks and nation-state-backed hacking operation by tightening up their security. Ignoring these pleas could have dire consequence.
To prevent attackers from gaining access to the network in the first place, or detecting unauthorised access as quickly as possible, operators of industrial systems need to gain a better understanding of where the vulnerabilities lie and clearly identify who has access to what.
“You have to start at the top level. Boards of directors and government’s policy groups need to start putting pressure on the operators – whether they’re state operators or quasi-state operations or completely private operations – they need to put pressure on organizations to do something,
As a hacker you’re going to spend months studying the operations of those facilities. And that as a defender is such a critical time where you could have found them and done something, to have prevented them from knowing enough to do what they wanted to do,”
Sergio Caltagirone, VP of Threat Intelligence, Dragos
Source: ZDNet
Informed Sauce is hosting an Infinidat-sponsored event in London on 2 December about protecting businesses from cyber crime, and particularly ransomware attacks.
Short talks from the Metropolitan Police, a military-trained cyber threat expert and sponsor Infinidat’s EMEA Field CTO will be followed by a panel-led, room-wide moderated discussion, with plenty of opportunities for you to contribute your thoughts and ask questions.
Visit the event microsite for more details and to sign up.