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Get ready for security in the age of the Extended Internet of Things, says Claroty.
Operational technology company Claroty makes a big claim about the future of OT and industrial control systems security: Based on data collected over the past few years, the distinction between OT/ICS and the rest of enterprise tech is beginning to fade in earnest, and new security headaches have appeared in their place.
Claroty states is case in its ICS Risk and Vulnerability report for the second half of 2021, which found among other things that there has been a 110% year-over-year increase in the number of ICS vulnerabilities disclosed since 2018, and that non-OT products made up 34% of ICS vulnerabilities reported in 2021.
"As more cyber-physical systems become connected, accessibility to these networks from the internet and the cloud requires defenders to have timely, useful vulnerability information to inform risk decisions," said Amir Preminger, vice president of research at Claroty.
The name that Claroty gives to its vision of a world devoid of distinctions between operational tech, informational tech and internet of things devices is the "Extended internet of things." It describes the XIoT as "An umbrella term that captures the cyber-physical systems critical to our lives not only for security management, but for data analysis, performance tracking and enhancement, and much more."
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