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Concern around protecting critical national infrastructure is growing. Critical national infrastructure has become a hot target for cyber criminals and has exacerbated worries around the globe due to its importance to everyday life.
CISA today warned that IoT and OT security flaws known as BadAlloc impact BlackBerry's QNX Real Time Operating System used by critical infrastructure organizations.BlackBerry QNX powers critical infrastructure systems.
SGT Capital announced that the EQT Mid Market Europe fund has agreed to sell Utimaco to SGT Capital. Utimaco has more than 470 employees around the globe and with its focus on protecting data, identities and critical infrastructures against cyber-crime, the Company is a crucial force in contributing to making the world and societies a safer place.
Arcserve announced Arcserve N Series appliances, which deliver integrated hyperscale backup, recovery, and ransomware protection to enterprise infrastructures. The Arcserve N Series appliances, built on Arcserve UDP technology, are powered by Nutanix, a leader in private, hybrid, and multi-cloud computing, and secured by Sophos.
A recent spike in large-scale ransomware attacks has highlighted the vulnerabilities in the nation's critical infrastructure and the ease with which their systems can be breached. Cyberattacks and ransomware pose a greater risk to critical infrastructure than a non-digital external threat like a nation-state does, and the size and scale of the infrastructure has little to do with the scope of the risk; ransomware is just as much as threat to a water treatment plant in downtown Smallville, USA, as it is to a large-scale energy grid or gasoline pipeline.
U.S. senators recently unveiled the finalized version of a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, which the White House says will allocate roughly $2 billion to improving the country's cybersecurity capabilities. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act includes funding for roads, bridges, transportation safety, public transit, railways, electric vehicle infrastructure, airports, ports, waterways, broadband internet, environmental remediation, and power infrastructure.
The global 5G infrastructure market size is expected to reach $80.5 billion by 2028, according to a study by Grand View Research. The significant investments by communication service providers to deploy 5G infrastructure across the globe to provide improved data services are estimated to drive the market.
The Biden administration has issued a National Security Memorandum on Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems to address what it describes as a "Woefully insufficient" security posture. "The Memorandum was accompanied by transcripts of remarks made by a"Senior administration official" who said the edicts are needed because "We have a patchwork of sector-specific statutes that have been adopted piecemeal, typically in response to discrete security threats in particular sectors that gained public attention.
The traditional "Trusted network" is no longer viable, forcing organizations to build upon a zero trust architecture to protect and strengthen their network infrastructures. Optiv Security is helping clients do just that with its Zero Trust Readiness Assessment.
US President Joe Biden today issued a national security memorandum designed to help strengthen the security of critical infrastructure by setting baseline performance goals for critical infrastructure owners and operators. It directs the Department of Homeland Security's CISA and the Department of Commerce's NIST, in collaboration with other federal agencies, to develop cybersecurity performance goals and guidance for critical infrastructure orgs.