Advice from CISA

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)shares some best practices for OEMs to consider as they up their cybersecurity prevention game, and the biggest reasons why it’s so important.

“In today’s ever increasingly digitized world, we face dynamic and evolving threats to critical infrastructure, including manufacturing, that underpins much of our daily lives,” says Antonio Enriquez, CISA Region 5 Chief of Cybersecurity. “Some of the top threats facing organizations include malware with the intent to disrupt, deny, or degrade the industrial control systems orchestrating the critical manufacturing sector; ransomware; phishing; improperly configured remote access; Industrial Internet of Things threats; advanced persistent threat a acks; intellectual property the ; and distributed denial of service a acks.”

Here are some best practices and action steps for organizations and individuals to consider:

•Recognize and report phishing: If a link looks a li le off, think before you click. It could be an a empt to get sensitive information or install malware.

•Update your so ware: If you see a so ware update notification, act promptly. Be er yet, turn on automatic updates.

•Use strong passwords: Use passwords that are long, unique, and randomly generated. Password managers can help generate and remember different, complex passwords for each of your accounts. A password manager can encrypt passwords securing them for you. Enable multi-factor authentication: You need more than a password to protect your online accounts, and enabling MFA makes you significantly less likely to get hacked.