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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
Expert Don C. Weber writes that safety devices are within scope for cybersecurity risk assessments. This includes conducting high-level risk assessments to assemble documentation for specific Systems-under-Consideration (SuC) of the safety solution, performing a vulnerability assessment of the SuC, feeding the results into the detailed risk assessment to allow the risk management team to identify and address residual risks.
Operational Technology
Operational Resilience
Vulnerability Management

Architecting Safety Using Cybersecurity Requirements and Assessments

Don C. Weber
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
In this episode of the Claroty Nexus Podcast, Istari Chief Technology Officer and Head of Advisory Abel Archundia joins to discuss the implications of complexity within critical infrastructure. Companies struggle with technical debt and are largely accumulated assets that are still part and parcel of their core businesses, and challenge their ability to proactively secure them and manage risk.
Risk Management
Healthcare

Nexus Podcast: Abel Archundia on Complexity in Critical Infrastructure

Michael Mimoso
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Operational Resilience

Nexus Podcast: Adam Gluck on Industrial DevOps

Michael Mimoso
The Change Healthcare cyberattack has spurred the proposal of new legislation from Sen. Mark Warner to demand minimum cybersecurity standards of hospitals and healthcare delivery organizations, or face financial penalties.
Healthcare

Change Healthcare Attack May Spur New Cybersecurity Laws

George V. Hulme
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
On this episode of the Nexus Podcast, Greg Garcia, Executive Director of The Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group, discusses the Sector Mapping and Risk Toolkit (SMART). SMART contains a set of 17 templates that enable healthcare organizations to map and visualize workflows, identify areas of risk, and where mitigations are most desperately needed.
Healthcare
Cyber Resilience
Vulnerability Management

Nexus Podcast: Greg Garcia on the Change Healthcare Cyberattack

Michael Mimoso
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Healthcare
Vulnerability Management
Risk Management

FDA Sets Sights on Medical Device Vulnerability Management

George V. Hulme
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Cyber Resilience
Operational Resilience
Risk Management

Think Like an Attacker: Be Frogger

John Frushour
The U.K.'s enhanced Cyber Assessment Framework is designed to help critical infrastructure organizations comprehensively assess and improve their ability to defend against, and respond to, cyberattacks.
Cyber Resilience
Operational Technology
Operational Resilience

UK Critical Infrastructure Sectors Brace for Enhanced Cyber Assessment Framework

George V. Hulme
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Cyber Resilience
Risk Management
Federal

Blunting the Risks of Private-Sector Ownership of CI

ADM. Michael S. Rogers, USN (Ret.)
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