Why Securing This Technology Is So Important

Both OT and IoT technologies serve as and support many critical infrastructure operations in our modern world today. With OT, our everyday lives heavily depend on infrastructure that is critical to our current living ways. For example, the power plants that serve our electricity heavily rely upon OT.

Imagine a major cybersecurity attack against our power plants that prevents power from being produced for a prolonged amount of time. Think of the water treatment facilities that supply water to our homes; what if a threat actor infiltrated the environment and modified the chemicals that treat the water? What about an attack on a company that manages the transportation of an energy source highly depended on by millions of people, like fuel? The last incident will bring familiarity with the Colonial Pipeline, an incident that caused mass panic on the east coast of the US and made headlines throughout the world: https://www.cisa.gov/news...