To anyone working in cybersecurity, it is not news that just about every critical infrastructure industry is significantly behind on their path toward cybersecurity maturity. There continues to be a fundamental friction between the estimation of cyber risk and the short-term thinking of today’s quarterly budgetary decisions.
There are several considerable roadblocks to safe and secure digital transformations efforts in manufacturing, or any industrial application where safety, security and reliability are paramount. At a high-level these areas include: Cybersecurity, Data Integration, and IT/OT interoperability and Integration.
In her recent article in NVTC’s The Voice of Technology online magazine, Jessica Ohnona (Executive Vice President of Data Science and Analytics at Cynalytica) raises important cybersecurity concerns regarding ICS digital transformation.
Cynalytica is pleased to announce the beta release of OT OptICS – an industry first in AI-driven OT cybersecurity.
Cynalytica is delighted to announce the appointment of Jeana Pieralde as ‘Technical Advisor – Manufacturing & Water Management Systems’.
Cynalytica is delighted to announce the appointment of Niyo Little Thunder Pearson as ‘Technical Advisor – Oil & Gas Cybersecurity & Operations’.
In July 2020, the National Security Agency (NSA) and Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a joint cybersecurity advisory recommending “Immediate Actions to Reduce Exposure Across all Operational Technologies and Control Systems.” The advisory emphasized “cyber actors have demonstrated their continued willingness to conduct malicious cyber activity against Critical Infrastructure (CI) by exploiting Internet-accessible […]
Cynalytica’s newsletter for January 2021 is now available. This edition focuses on the insufficiency of best practices in OT cybersecurity and the risks Serial-to-Ethernet Converters pose to critical infrastructure.
I am not sure how many more wake up calls it will take before we all start to acknowledge that we are considerably behind in our protection of Industrial Control System environments for our Nations Critical Infrastructure. The recent compromise of Solarwinds and the Sunburst Hack should shake this fact into the heart and soul […]
In industrial automation, Serial to Ethernet Converters/Gateways and Serial Device Servers are a long-established and widely used method for enabling remote communications and monitoring of devices that only support serial interfaces such as RS-232, RS-485, and RS-422 to name a few. The devices are typically used to convert serial to ethernet protocols (and vice versa) […]