For organisations operating operational technology and critical national infrastructure in Ireland, two pressures are arriving at the same time. The first is regulatory. The second is technical. Both are forcing organisations to rethink whether their OT environments are designed not just to prevent attacks, but to contain them and maintain operations when prevention fails. For […]
Is My Asset Inventory Truly Complete? “You can’t protect what you can’t see” is an oft used phrase in cybersecurity circles. It means that if you don’t know what’s on your network, you’re more vulnerable to security vulnerabilities resulting from unpatched devices and network equipment without the latest security protections. While many people think about […]
Operational Technology (OT) is the catch-all term used for the Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Monitoring systems that are essential for the functioning of the modern world. Examples of infrastructure that relies on OT include power generation and distribution, oil & gas refining and distribution, city infrastructure, rail and road transport, airport and port control, […]
Introduction The pharmaceutical industry has been at the forefront in the project to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic. From research to find drugs that are an effective treatment for anyone with a severe infection, through to research, design, manufacture, and trials of multiple vaccine candidates. Several of which have been approved and are rolling out globally. […]
This April, we are focusing on OT Cybersecurity across the Renaissance partner network. In case you don’t know, OT stands for Operational Technology. It is complementary to IT and defined by Gartner as “hardware and software that detects or causes a change through the direct monitoring and/or control of physical devices, processes, and events in […]
This year has seen a considerable increase in the frequency and sophistication of ransomware attacks. This has happened across all sectors of the economy, but healthcare providers have been heavily targeted.
Security is essential for all IT and OT (Operational Technology) systems. But like most things in the real world, some are more important than others. For example, those that control physical machinery delivering vital services in the real world, like transport control systems, power distribution, or health systems. Some purely digital systems such as banking […]
The battle to keep IT and OT (Operational Technology) systems secure from cybercriminals, and to prevent accidental data leakage, is an ongoing task. Malicious adversaries are just as smart as those who seek to protect systems from attack. As protections are put in place then, as night follows day, ways to circumvent them are discovered […]
As the world becomes more and more connected, the threats to the infrastructure we all rely on also increases. Cybercriminals are not just looking for vulnerabilities in IT data systems. They are also targeting Operational Technology (OT) command and control systems used to run the modern world. Whether it is manufacturing machinery in factories, or […]