(CS)²AI Online™: Understanding ICS-OT Cyber Security Risks & Defense Measures

In recent years, industry experts were periodically informed on many new vulnerabilities related to Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), Remote Terminal Units (RTU), Human Machine Interface (HMI) and Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED), supplied by a range of well-known vendors.

These exposures lead to growing concerns among systems’ operators about possible cyber-attacks against Industrial Control Systems (ICS) / Operation technology (OT) systems. However, the published incidents worldwide contradicts those publications, and the number of attacks impacting the ICS-OT operation was low.

Among the published internally and externally generated cyber security incidents, we find attacks that may directly or indirectly affect the industrial process and cause operation outages, damage to machinery, and risks to lives.

Attacks can be internally and externally generated or caused by negligent supply chain. The session will explain why ICS/OT directed Ransomware is not likely to happen.

To protect the business operation continuity of your plants, you must be more concerned about the incidents caused by failures, uncorrected actions by authorized personnel, and internal or external or supply chain-initiated cyber-attacks.

This session aims to help readers understand the IT and OT-related cyber incidents and select suitable and cost-effective cyber defense solutions that ensure the facility's operating safety, reliability, and performance (SRP).

Speaker:

Daniel Ehrenreich, BSc. is a consultant and lecturer acting at Secure Communications and Control Experts (SCCE) and periodically teaches and presents at industry conferences on the integration of cyber defense with industrial control systems; Daniel has over 33 years of engineering experience with ICS and OT systems for electricity, water, gas, and power plants as part of his activities at Tadiran, Motorola, Siemens, and Waterfall Security.

Guest Host:

Justin Searle, Director of ICS Security at InGuardians

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