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2021-11-19 07:30
It followed this up with a memorandum on improving cybersecurity for critical infrastructure control systems.
Cities don't often have the expertise or resources to secure systems well or monitor for these kinds of attacks, and the attackers only have to succeed once.
"That's really where people started to think about critical infrastructure being attacked."
The system then watches for changes in that system's behaviour, watching ICS components and what they're doing in real time.
While ransomware might not go after OT directly, it can affect infrastructure companies by hitting their administrative systems.
When Colonial Pipeline suffered a ransomware attack in May, it hit the company's commercial systems rather than the OT infrastructure.
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