Security News > 2020 > August > NSA and CISA Alert Highlights Urgency for OT Security
The indiscriminate use of destructive exploits in NotPetya networks and halted operations) revealed to security professionals just how poor the cyber risk posture of their OT networks is and prompted swift actions in many of the largest companies.
For years now, the government has been warning openly and clearly that: "Since at least March 2016, Russian government cyber actors-hereafter referred to as 'threat actors'-targeted government entities and multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors." A new alert, issued by the U.S. National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, couldn't be more clear: "We are in a state of heightened tensions and additional risk and exposure."
Hence the urgency conveyed in the NSA and CISA alert to protect vulnerable networks.
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