Security News > 2021 > July > Leading Threat to Industrial Security is Not What You Think
The growing practice of connecting ICS to enterprise networks and the internet, driven by technologies such as IoT, edge computing and analytics platforms, has put ICS on the radar of cybercriminals.
Securing ICS is more challenging than protecting traditional IT environments since ICS is insecure by design.
Perhaps the biggest threat to ICS is the fact that utility companies are such large targets - they are well known, cover large geographic areas, and their critical locations are all very public.
Simply put, ICS operators need additional methods of obscuring their critical infrastructure from cyber security threats and tactics while allowing teams to more anonymously conduct incident detection and response.
Dealing with data injection attacks also requires knowledge of how data is shaped and moves across the ICS environment, something that may be difficult for ICS operators to conceptualize.
Today's threats to ICS are much more common than stuxnet was some 10 years ago, and the attackers have evolved to seek financial gains from attacks, making ICS a growing attack vector.
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