Security News > 2020 > April > Industries with critical infrastructure are at greater risk during the pandemic
Fewer people working onsite due to the pandemic means critical infrastructure is at greater risk in industries like oil and gas, manufacturing, and utilities-and most organizations don't have the right tools in place, according to Dave Weinstein, chief security officer at Claroty, a provider of OT software.
Dave Weinstein: A lot of the blocking and tackling of remote access management isn't happening, so there's clearly a need for that; certainly in the coronavirus age, but even before the pandemic occurred and even after it goes away.
Dave Weinstein: Generally speaking, most of the threats coming into the network from OT are exploiting what is a growing level of connectivity between IT and OT networks.
You used to have an isolated factory floor that was air gappedand now there are so many systems connecting to OT infrastructure, so attackers are taking notes and after years of trying to attack OT networks directly, they're compromising the IT network now using traditional attack techniques like spear phishing.
That's the primary threat vector that we see-it's that most of the threats that find their way to the OT network come from IT networks.
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