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SEE: Security Response Policy The report, "The Global State of Industrial Cybersecurity," which includes responses from full-time IT pros in the US, UK, Germany, France, and Australia, found that business security leaders in the US are more concerned about the security of their industrial OT systems than are leaders in other nations. The data also showed that global IT security professionals have a more positive overall outlook about their OT network security compared with their counterparts in the US. About 62% of the global IT respondents said they believe that industrial OT networks are properly safeguarded, compared to only 49% of US respondents.
5G will be the main driver for mobility for this year with the market for 5G infrastructure expected to hit $4.2 billion, with two-thirds of companies deploying 5G in 2020, according to Gartner. Kiang added, "Mainstream 5G adoption will drive innovation, creating new business opportunities across a wide-range of industries. Consumers acclimating to a new-found transformational leap in mobile connectivity will adopt revolutionary new products, services, and solutions that smartly leverage 5G's chief benefits, namely low-latency and speed. In 2020, the development of 5G infrastructure and use-cases will proceed in parallel, and intersect in increasing frequency as the technology matures."
Microsoft says it managed to disrupt the Necurs botnet by taking control of the U.S.-based infrastructure that it has been using to conduct its malicious activities. Necurs is a peer-to-peer hybrid botnet that uses a Domain Generation Algorithm to ensure bots could always connect to a command and control server.
To thwart increasingly dangerous cyber criminals, law enforcement agents are working to "Burn down their infrastructure" and take out the tools that allow them to carry out their devastating attacks, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday. Unsophisticated cyber criminals now have the power to paralyze entire hospitals, businesses and police departments, Wray said during a conference on cybersecurity at Boston College.
VMware, a leading innovator in enterprise software, announced new innovations to advance the company's strategy to make security intrinsic to the digital enterprise. New VMware Advanced Security for Cloud Foundation, which will enable customers to replace legacy security solutions and deliver unified protection across private and public clouds.
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Global Cloud Xchange, the leading provider of global managed next-generation networks, announced the extension of its relationship with global automotive supplier Autoneum through a new three-year managed network agreement. With the renewed contract, GCX will proceed to transform Autoneum's business-critical Wide Area Network to embrace next-generation network technologies like SD-WAN. "Proceeding on our digitalization journey, we need to extend our flexibility in shifting workloads between Clouds or on-premises. Global real-time collaboration among employees and external partners using innovative new technologies is key."
As currently used in the cloud, IaC can expose organizations to certain risks. In its Cloud Threat Report for Spring 2020, Unit 42, the global threat intelligence team at Palo Alto Networks, looked at how organizations use IaC and cloud-based environments to manage their infrastructure.
Manufacturing facilities and processing centers using AutomationDirect C-more Touch Panels are advised to upgrade their firmware ASAP, as older versions contain a high-risk vulnerability that may allow attackers to get account information such as usernames and passwords, obscure or manipulate process data, and lock out access to the device. Manufactured by US-based AutomationDirect, the vulnerable C-more Touch Panels EA9 series are human-machine interfaces capable of communicating with a wide variety of programmable logic controllers.
Trend Micro, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, announced that it will collaborate with Baker Hughes' Nexus Controls operational technology security experts through a strategic framework agreement, signed in late 2019. Under the terms of the agreement, Trend Micro and Baker Hughes plan to work together to help mitigate these and other cyber-risks in support of IT and security leaders looking to drive digital transformation success.