By Yaniv Vardi on April 27, 2021
Companies in the industrial space face unique challenges when it comes to revealing what needs to be secured
For years now, the U.S. government has been warning openly and clearly of targeted attacks against government entities and multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors. However, in the months following the COVID-19 crisis, threat activity surged and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a new alert stating: “We are in a state of heightened tensions and additional risk and exposure.” The broad warnings of an imminent and serious threat across all 16 critical infrastructure sectors included lengthy, detailed sets of recommendations for how to protect operational technology (OT) environments, beginning with “create an accurate, as operated, OT network map immediately.”