ICS/SCADA
What stops attackers wrecking industrial plants is knowing how
Engineers at an Israeli food producer spent most of a week rebuilding a refrigeration system after an intruder switched the gas cooler and receiver valves to manual and pinned …
Marathon Petroleum’s CISO on OT security automation, supply chain risk
In this interview with Help Net Security, Mary Rose Martinez, CISO at Marathon Petroleum, talks about what happens to security when automation reaches deep into refineries, …
The checklist problem behind critical infrastructure cyber safety
An asset owner can meet major federal cyber compliance standards and still run equipment that lacks the engineering to withstand an attack or a failure. New research from …
ICS intrusion detection has blind spots that complicate plant security
Industrial control systems on plant floors run alongside a growing layer of monitoring software meant to catch intruders before they reach a turbine, a valve, or a chemical …
Cybersecurity is now the price of admission for industrial AI
Industrial organizations are accelerating AI deployment across manufacturing, utilities, and transportation and running straight into a security problem. Cisco’s 2026 …
OT teams are losing the time advantage against industrial threat actors
In many industrial environments, internet-facing gateways, remote access appliances, and boundary systems sit close enough to production networks that attackers can move from …
A safer way to break industrial systems (on purpose)
Cybersecurity teams often struggle to test defenses for industrial control systems without risking disruption. A group of researchers from Curtin University has developed a …
The power grid is getting old, and so is the cybersecurity protecting it
Critical infrastructure is getting older, and the cost of that decay is starting to show. The Arthur D. Little Built to Last? report says that the systems powering energy, …
The five-minute guide to OT cyber resilience
In this Help Net Security video, Rob Demain, CEO of e2e-assure, explains the essentials of OT cybersecurity resilience. He discusses the importance of understanding remote …
How a fake ICS network can reveal real cyberattacks
Researchers have introduced a new way to study and defend against ICS threats. Their project, called ICSLure, is a honeynet built to closely mimic a real industrial …
OT security needs continuous operations, not one-time fixes
Cyberattacks keep hitting the OT systems that critical infrastructure operators run, according to new research from Forrester. In a survey of 262 OT security decision-makers, …
Global OT cyber risk could top $329 billion, new report warns
A new study from Dragos and Marsh McLennan puts hard numbers on the global financial risk tied to OT cyber incidents. The 2025 OT Security Financial Risk Report estimates that …