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| Figure 1- Cybersecurity: Changing Threat Landscape |
In your day-to-day routine, how focused are you on topics of cybersecurity? Do you follow exploits published by SANS, ICS-CERT, etc and relish in unique 0-Day findings? Or, do you passively hear of hacks on the news and think, “I’m glad that wasn’t my company!” For most of us, the answer would be the latter. However, the scale of attacks on the manufacturing sector and proportional loss to businesses in recent years has demonstrated the necessity of secure integrated control systems.
The constantly shifting threat landscape can be daunting to follow – and it shows – in fact, the 2016 Vormetric Data Threat Report states that, “64% of IT execs think achieving basic compliance will stop most breaches.” With the increasing nation-state threat, breaches are becoming more sophisticated and creating APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) with new levels of potency.
The “script-kiddies” of yesterday, taking advantage of single exploits, have grown up to become a highly trained, educated and government-sponsored team of professionals. This team is dedicated to stealing a target’s IP (intellectual property) and/or using that company’s weaknesses to damage an entire industry. The scale is massive, and the threat is real.
