Technology Magazine - USA (2021-02)

—

Mex Martinot,

Vice President and Head of Asia,

Industrial Cyber and Digital Security

“ COVID has brought a

unique set of changes

into the environment, and

people might be cutting

corners due to the current

circumstances. Attackers

understand that people

are working from home

and connecting internally

and see it as low hanging

fruit, so it’s important to

be aware of that”

which pre-date the internet era. These

often use proprietary network proto-

cols, and lack basic security controls

like authentication or encryption. They

also don’t have event logs or audit

trails. As a result, incident detection

and response in an OT environment

is very different than in an IT environ-

ment. Both the IT and OT environments

must converge to address the security

threats on both sides of the network.”

Bussiere adds that 2021 will be the

era of widespread IT and OT conver-

gence — whether that be intentional

or accidental. Unfortunately, many

organisations will likely learn the hard

way that their OT is no longer air-

gapped as cybercriminals continue to

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