TAP Into Technology Blog: Industrial OT (12)
Making the Switch: Serial Bus to Ethernet
There’s a lot of talk these days about Industrial Ethernet. What it is and what it is not. Part of the misunderstanding is that the standards are very simple, yet stringent. The simple part of Industrial Ethernet is once you determine your...
Looking at the Ukraine Power Grid Hack: Why Defending the Industrial Ethernet Is No Longer a Precautionary Tale
When we discussed Rhebo’s innovative approach to Germany’s new IT-Security Act (ITSA), real-world cyber attacks on the industrial Ethernet hadn’t truly come to fruition. It seemed like a critical infrastructure hack was still relegated to...
Top Network Security Challenges/Concerns for 2016
2015 taught us many things, like companies can be breached and many Gigabytes of data can be siphoned off without the company even knowing about it. Even our super secure government sites and health providers were successfully hacked and...
Rhebo Leading the Way to Creating a More Secure Industrial Ethernet
As the industrial sector embraces Ethernet communications on the manufacturing floor and in the power grid, a whole new set of security risks loom. While Ethernet connectivity does provide key redundancy, data sharing and remote access...
4SICS Conference Recap on Industrial Control Systems
I attended the Swedish industrial cyber security conference 4SICS last month, where I also gave a one-day class on analyzing network traffic. 4SICS is the the leading Industrial Control System (ICS) security conference in Europe, which...