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Ireland make OT Security a top priority for their national security

Ireland Makes OT Security Top Priority

Ireland’s NCSC has taken a very positive first step in protecting its national critical infrastructure and OT systems by addressing the essential characteristics that make OT networks different, encouraging engineering-based principles and tasks to effectively mitigate the risk of physical consequences of compromise.

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Cloud-Rendezvous-Style OT Remote Access

Cloud-Rendezvous-Style OT Remote Access: Residual Risk

Security product vendors sometimes make outrageous claims – in this article we look at cloud-rendezvous style remote access systems for OT networks and how they work. We debunk the most outrageous claims, we look at residual risk that we accept when deploying these systems, and we suggest circumstances where deploying these kinds of systems actually does make sense.

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OT Security blog post about how likely a security flaw might end up unaliving someone

How Likely Is That To Kill Anyone?

IT teams newly responsible for OT security are often appalled with the results of an initial vulnerability assessment. “Patch everything! Patch it now!” is often the directive issued to engineering teams. The correct response to such a directive is “How likely is that to kill anyone?” Engineering teams cannot proceed with any change to a system until they have a clear understanding of the answer. And the answer is almost never “zero likelihood.”

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