Industrial control systems risk shutdowns and other dangerous outcomes due to cybersecurity attacks
No doubt a ransomware or malware attack can shut down enterprise business systems, but cybersecurity attacks can do a lot more damage on manufacturing systems
Of late, several companies have taken hits on their worldwide IT and Web based systems. Perhaps the most recent, Canon, suffered a global ransomware attack, taking down many Canon websites and systems—also with a threat of making their private business data public. But can these IT/enterprise attacks threaten and/or damage OT systems? And what can they do to food and beverage products? Make them unsafe by altering a critical kill step or omitting preservatives? What else?
I asked Barak Pereleman, VP of OT Security at Tenable, what attack vectors may pose danger to OT-based systems.