Manufacturing environments rely heavily on Operational Technology (OT) systems – such as industrial control systems, supervisory control, PLCs etc. to manage production processes. Compromises of these networks and systems can have devastating consequences, including:
• Production disruptions and downtime
• Safety hazards:
• Data breaches ...
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed was given a three-year prison sentence after exfiltrating more than $12.3 million from two decentralized finance cryptocurrency exchanges hacked in July 2022, The Hacker News reports.
Operational Technology (OT) security is concerned with protecting embedded, purpose-built technologies enabling our industrial processes. You also may have heard “adjacent” buzzwords like Internet of Things (IOT) and Fog (like “cloud” but close to the ground). OT security has significant challenges in terms of cost/size/weight, capability, ability ...