Securing OPC DA With Unidirectional Gateways
When it comes to securing OPC DA, nothing compares to the security that a unidirectional gateway provides.
April 18, 2024
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What is OT Anyway?
Engineers have very recently started to use the “OT” term, primarily when interacting with enterprise security teams. Engineers use the term to refer to the computers and networks that control important, complex, and often dangerous physical processes
April 2, 2024
The 2024 Threat Report – At a Glance
Cyber attacks impacting physical operations, like shut-downs, are rising. Waterfall’s NEW annual threat report provides industrial operators with the latest trends in the threat environment to prepare themselves going forward.
March 24, 2024
OT Cybersecurity: Can the Government Save Us?
Governments play an important role in OT security: they educate, they share threat information, they vet our employees and other trusted insiders, and from time to time they legislate cybersecurity defenses that the most consequential industrial enterprises must implement.
March 21, 2024
OT Security: Are We Protecting the Information?
Industrial network engineers have always been uneasy with the task of “protecting information”. The real priority for OT security is in stopping inbound malicious information from entering the system and threatening machinery and workers.
March 7, 2024
IT vs. OT Differences, Superficial vs. Fundamental
The fundamental difference between these two kinds of networks is consequences: most often, the worst-case consequences of cyber attacks are sharply, qualitatively different on IT vs OT networks…
February 18, 2024
How to Properly Cyber Secure an Upstream Oil & Gas Operation
The Waterfall Unidirectional Security Gateway and how it has been applied at Oil & Gas production sites such as oil fields and offshore platforms.
February 13, 2024
OT Security Solutions: Exploring Technologies
The operational technology (OT) environments that power critical infrastructure face rapidly escalating cyber threats. As facilities like power plants, water treatment centers, and manufacturing plants connect operations to external networks, they expose vulnerable legacy OT systems. Attacks like TRITON, Stuxnet, and Industroyer demonstrate the damage hackers can inflict when they access operational networks. To protect themselves, organizations need OT security solutions exploring for industrial control systems.
February 12, 2024
Keeping the Flow: Cyber-Proofing Oil & Gas Production
In our everything-goes-digital era, the upstream Oil & Gas (O&G) industry finds itself at the crossroads of innovation and vulnerability. Securing O&G operations goes beyond the frameworks commonly addressed in IT security.
January 25, 2024
