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Industrial Ethernet Basics—What the Convergence of IT and OT Really Means

In previous blogs about the Industrial Ethernet, we’ve touched on the growing internet connectivity of traditionally offline systems and what that has meant for security. For some, the context of...

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Is Your Industrial Control System Secure? Probably Not

With attacks on critical infrastructure similar to last year’s Ukraine power grid hack on the rise according to recent reports, it’s easy to point blame at the stack of security solutions. We’ve...

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Hijacking Healthcare: Is DTSec Regulation the Solution for IoT enabled devices?

The recent jump in cyber attacks against the healthcare industry—especially ransomware attacks—aren’t a coincidence. The reality is that the healthcare industry presents the perfect opportunity for...

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A Glimmer of Hope for Industrial Security in 2016

Creating the smart grid for critical infrastructure is becoming increasingly feasible from an economic standpoint. For the oil and gas industry this could mean greatly-reduced operating costs and...

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Real Time Passive Monitoring is the Smarter Solution

Our infrastructure is at risk. In 2013, an Iranian hacker broke into the flow control mechanism for a dam in upstate New York. Only the fact that the dam itself was broken prevented him from remotely...

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Beyond the Firewall: Smarter Network Security for the “Smart Grid”

Network-enabled sensors and devices, part of the Internet of Things (IoT), can be a boon to industrial operations. They help Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems automate...

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