Blog Industry: Pharma Manufacturing
Testing the Limits: Inside Owl Cyber Defense’s SEER Lab
As artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum technologies reshape the cybersecurity landscape, the ability to identify and understand emerging vulnerabilities remains more critical than ev...
Steve Stratton Author | Retired Green Beret | Cybersecurity Advisor
Operation Skipjack – Part 1
Chapter One
INDOPACOM J3 Admiral Nikki Fury
Camp H. M. Smith Aiea, Hawaii
As I’m walking back to my office in the J3-Operations Directorate, I have a feeling something is not rig...
John McKeon Business Development Manager - Financial Services
How Can SIEM Work with Air-Gapped Networks?
To keep a critical network safe, a common practice has traditionally been to establish an air gap – in other words, disconnect that network from “untrusted” or less secure networks,...
Brian Romansky Chief Innovation Officer
Vaccine-like Trials Could Allay Software Patch Concerns
A recent article from fortune.com implies that perhaps the Russian race to be the first to announce an approved vaccine for COVID-19 might circumvent the level of rigorous safety and effi...
Bill Caffery Strategic Technology Advisor
Closing the Barn Door?
According to yesterday’s NY Times (July 16, 2020) U.S. Intelligence agencies have revealed that a small but well-known hacking group associated with Russian Intelligence have been “ta...
Charlie Schick Healthcare Consultant
Protecting Information Amongst the Chaos
This week, new evidence emerged that a group linked to the Russian government, APT29 (also known as Cozy Bear), has been attacking and trying to steal COVID-19-related informati...
Charlie Schick Healthcare Consultant
VxWorks URGENT/11 – When Your Reliable System is Actually a Time Bomb
What You Need to Know
Eleven critical vulnerabilities were found in a leading real-time operating system (RTOS) used in many industries, by leading vendors - VxWorks. The nature and scal...
Charlie Schick Pharma and Healthcare Consultant
Total Geekery: Data Diode Bioreactor Demo
This post will be on the light side, describing a demo I had fun making and about which my co-workers are tired of hearing me speak. Nonetheless, despite the geekiness of the demo, it was...
Charlie Schick Healthcare Consultant
How Will You Securely Expand Your PI System to Include Contract Manufacturers?
So you want to optimize your manufacturing operations. The competitive landscape virtually demands it, driving efficiency into every facet of every process across your organization and be...
Charlie Schick Healthcare Consultant
A New Model for Secure IIoT Connectivity
I recently wrote a post about how IIoT devices are upending the Purdue Model as folks jump layers and stream data from the low layers directly up to the higher layers and beyond. Thinkin...
Charlie Schick Healthcare Consultant
How IIoT and the Cloud are Upending the Purdue Model in Manufacturing
The Purdue Model of Control Hierarchy is a framework commonly used by manufacturers in pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, food and beverage, and other verticals to group enterprise and industr...
Charlie Schick Healthcare Consultant
Running Away is Not a Good Cyber Strategy for Ransomware
There’s one common characteristic of folks who are in the cybersecurity world: we have an (admittedly dark) fascination with reading about hacks in the news. The intellectuals will try ...