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Cybersecurity experts are cautious about the new National Security Memorandum (NSM), which replaces the decade-old Presidential Policy Directive. Proponents say, will help strengthen the security of critical infrastructure within the United States, but because it's short on prescriptive details, security experts are unsure of the path forward.
Cyber Resilience
Risk Management

White House Signs Critical Infrastructure Memorandum, Details Remain Unclear

George V. Hulme
OT and ICS asset owners must consider non-traditional OT exposures beyond software vulnerabilities—a comprehensive exposure management approach to risk reduction—to understand the multifaceted challenges and the proactive measures necessary to safeguard critical infrastructure.
Cyber Resilience
Operational Technology
Risk Management

Operational Technology Exposure: Beyond Software Vulnerabilities

Dan Ricci
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) reacts to growing cloud implementations for operational technology, SCADA, and industrial control systems. The shift to cloud computing has caused the NCSC to be concerned that organizations aren't properly managing the new connectivity, including security boundaries and access control mechanisms.
Risk Management
Cyber Resilience
Operational Technology

UK NCSC Urges OT/ICS Operators to Secure Cloud Migrations

George V. Hulme
Healthcare
Vulnerability Management
Risk Management

FDA Sets Sights on Medical Device Vulnerability Management

George V. Hulme
Cyber Resilience
Operational Resilience
Risk Management

Think Like an Attacker: Be Frogger

John Frushour
Cyber Resilience
Risk Management
Federal

Blunting the Risks of Private-Sector Ownership of CI

ADM. Michael S. Rogers, USN (Ret.)
The “Report to the President: Strategy for Cyber-Physical Resilience: Fortifying Our Critical Infrastructure for a Digital World,” reaffirms that cyber-resilience-by-design should be the standard and urges a coalition of government leaders and private sector critical infrastructure asset owners and operators to refocus their energies to build resilient cyber-physical systems (CPS) that are designed to withstand attack.
Federal
Cyber Resilience
Risk Management

Applauding A Codified Strategy for CPS Resilience

Chris Inglis
Expert Dan Ricci explains how IT security and operational technology engineers and asset operators must collaborate to properly address risk within industrial environments.
Operational Technology
Risk Management
Operational Resilience

Three Ways to Foster Collaboration, Understanding Between IT, OT Security, Part 2

Dan Ricci
The U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services Cybersecurity Performance Goals sets expectations on healthcare delivery organizations to protect their data and technology environments.
Healthcare
Operational Resilience
Risk Management

What HHS's New Cybersecurity Performance Goals Mean to Healthcare Organizations

George V. Hulme
The Volt Typhoon takedown highlights the challenges the world faces in defending against such threats and the private industry/government collaboration that's necessary to succeed.
Operational Technology
Cyber Resilience
Risk Management

Volt Typhoon Takedown Highlights Critical Infrastructure Security Complexities

George V. Hulme
Understanding the nuances of OT cybersecurity vulnerabilities becomes imperative for IT cybersecurity teams to develop comprehensive defense strategies that safeguard both IT and OT environments.
Operational Technology
Operational Resilience
Vulnerability Management
Risk Management

What IT Cybersecurity Teams Need to Know about OT Vulnerabilities (Part 1)

Dan Ricci
With more than a dozen cybersecurity incident notification laws in effect around the world, it’s time for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and incident response teams to think about the consequences of declaring an incident: timing is everything.
Risk Management

Don’t Call it an Incident–Yet: Managing Liability in a New Era of Incident Reporting and Compliance

Cristin Flynn Goodwin

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