Industrial and infrastructure networks are prime targets for attackers

Operational technology networks are used with specialized Industrial Control Systems (ICS) to monitor and control physical processes such as assembly lines, mixing tanks, and blast furnaces. These networks are ripe targets for adversaries according to a new study from industrial cyber security company CyberX. Many of these networks are exposed to the public internet and easy to crack using simple vulnerabilities like plain-text passwords. Lack of even basic protections like antivirus can enable attackers to quietly perform reconnaissance before sabotaging physical processes. Once attackers get into an OT network it's relatively easy for them to move around and compromise industrial… [Continue Reading]