NSA and CISA Alert Highlights Urgency for OT Security

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In the last few years, we’ve seen ample evidence of how cyberattacks on critical infrastructure can be leveraged by nation-states and other powerful adversaries as weapons in geopolitical conflicts. The attacks on the Ukraine power grid and several other incidents demonstrated a show of power and how a country’s infrastructure can be disrupted. The indiscriminate use of destructive exploits in NotPetya (which caused widespread, collateral damage to operational technology (OT) networks and halted operations) revealed to security professionals just how poor the cyber risk posture of their OT networks is and prompted swift actions in many of the largest companies.

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