Pay attention: LockerGoga and Trisis/Triton demand an improved cyber security strategy The need for a solid cyber security strategy has been discussed and debated for almost half a century now and yet the basic worm-type attacks first documented back in 1972 are still with us today. Why? Because even the most basic measures
ticket” item t hat would be expensive
thinking, for some reason, often is not
to protect control systems from
to replace — you protect that asset with
applied. Cyber experts are still struggling
these types of attacks are still not
insurance. And even though you can’t
to convince senior management they
systematically employed.
see it or feel it, you know, instinctively,
need to spend money to protect their
that it’s worth the money. You sleep
control system assets.
It’s hard to believe that there are still
better at night knowing you have it and it
thousands of systems in operation
would be a high-priority item to reacquire
But major security events starting in
today without any basic security
if you lost it — especially if it contributed
2017 set off alarm bells in board rooms
controls in place. If you own a car, a
to your livelihood. But, when it comes
across the industrial world. Two viruses,
house or a boat — just about any “big-
to control system cyber security, this
WannaCry and NotPetya, wreaked
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