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White Paper: The New EU NIS 2016/1148 Cybersecurity Directive for Essential Service Operators
The responsibility of top management, both personal- and organizational-wise, for the safe and reliable operation of critical infrastructures, is essential for national security and organizational success. The EU took an active step to ensure this in the NIS directive...
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Unified monitoring: Using OT infrastructure & protocols to send CS alerts to a SCADA control center
In the process of devising a cybersecurity protection project for an OT network, operators typically need to reconcile between numerous constraints and influencers , to facilitate and simplify the project and reduce expenses, all while deriving the most benefits out...
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Sirens blaring, but is it a false alarm? Cybersecure your Public Warning System
Public warning systems are crucial during natural disasters, terrorist attacks or armed hostilities, and as such, their reliability is key. They need be promptly initiated during emergencies, and they need to be absolutely silent at all other times, as...
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Seeing is Believing: Live Demonstration of OT Cyber Attacks
By Gilad Bandel, VP Products, Radiflow Real-life live demonstrations of cyber-attacks scenarios are the best way to educate and create awareness of the potential risks and damages to ICS/SCADA systems, using various attack vectors. Such a demonstration was held at the...
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Usability is key: Radiflow’s IEPP vs. the HatMan (aka Trisis, Triton) malware
By Yehonatan Kfir, CTO, Radiflow On Dec 18, 2017, ICS-CERT published a report on a new ICS-specific malware dubbed HatMan (aka TRISIS or TRITON.) The source code of the malware was recently published for anyone to download and use. HatMan was designed to...
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Five steps to assess the security of your industrial control system
Based on the extent of cyber attacks on organizations that employ Industrial Control Systems (ICS), it should be assumed that there’s a good chance someone will try to hack into yours and cause interferences that may effect the network’s safety and reliability. It’s...
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The headache caused by protecting unmanned distributed sites
In recent years, the awareness for securing industrial control systems (ICS) has greatly increased. Since around 2014, many companies have started implementing cyber security solutions to protect their ICS networks from potential cyber incidents. In most companies,...
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Are Schools Ready for Cyber Attacks?
When parents send their children to school, they believe that the school will educate them, teach them manners, and prepare them for the real life. But before the teaching starts, both kids and parents should have confidence in the school environment, the quality of...
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Detection of unauthorized changes in the PLCs’ logic
The Deep-Packet-Inspection (DPI) protocol for industrial network traffic is one of the fundamental technologies currently used in protecting ICS networks. Using this technology, security products are able to accurately identify the industrial commands and parameters...
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Calculating the Cost of a Power Outage
What is the cost of a power outage caused by a cyber-attack? And how does one calculate the predicted cost? Beyond the actuary purpose of estimating the cost of a power outage caused by a cyber-attack, the predicted cost can also inform decision makers as to the...
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Convergence of Cyber & Physical Security to Protect OT Networks
Integrated physical security systems, e.g. between a video surveillance system and a swipe card-based access control/user permissions system, have been around for quite a while. Bringing together Cyber and Physical security is a different story. In a typical...
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Analysis of the Ukrainian Outage
As the smoke starts to clear around the Ukrainian power outage–a significant case of a confirmed cyber-attack that left tens of thousands of people in the dark–more and more details are being confirmed about the chain of events that led to the outage. In this paper we...
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