Blog Industry: ICS

Cross Domain Security for Critical Infrastructure
Cybersecurity has always been a key concern in the critical infrastructure sector. But in 2021, security is taking on even greater importance, due to the convergence of two factors: the g...

Webinar: The Critical Value of Hardware-Based Security
In critical infrastructure, there’s no room for inherently vulnerable cybersecurity solutions. The hacker community has spent decades developing ways to exploit commercial software ecos...

Scott Coleman Vice President of Marketing
7 Myths About Data Diodes
Not sure what you should believe about data diodes?
It’s no surprise—manufacturers of “unidirectional gateways” and other inferior technologies have done their best to create c...

Brian Romansky Chief Innovation Officer
A New Paradigm: OT Security and Data in the Cloud
Many industries have seen significant improvements in operational efficiency and reduced downtime by adopting advanced analytics and optimization algorithms that run on cloud services.
...

The Oldsmar Water System Attack: What It Can Teach Us
Last week’s attack on the Oldsmar, Florida, water system demonstrated that critical infrastructure operations are under constant threat of cyber attacks, and that a successful attack ca...

Brian Romansky Chief Innovation Officer
Hardware-Based Filtering: FPGA Security In Action
The vulnerabilities inherent in software-based cybersecurity solutions cause greater concern every year. Due to the fact that any software-based solution relies on a central processing un...

Dave Britton Vice President, Assured Collaboration Systems
Building the Future of Cross Domain Security
In early January, Owl Cyber Defense announced the acquisition of the Assured Collaboration Systems (ACS) product line from Trident Systems Incorporated. This acquisition brings together t...

It’s Not Personal, It’s a Cyber Attack
Security breaches happen so often, it can be difficult to find something new to say about them. That’s why we don’t go out of our way to comment on every incident that makes it into t...

Ken Walker Chief Technology Officer
Amnesia:33 and Ripple20 Highlight the Difference Between Hardware-Enforced CDS and Firewalls
For years, the NSA has been telling us that firewalls are worthless as defense against targeted nation-state attacks. Now we finally have some examples of why this is true.
On December...

Brian Romansky Chief Innovation Officer
Minimizing Risk with FPGAs and Hardware-Based Security
Conventional data security technology has entered a mode of persistent escalation. System designers invest heavily in design and validation, while attackers continually uncover, exploit, ...

Brian Romansky Chief Innovation Officer
Why Embed? The Value of Native Security in Industrial Controls
In recent years, threat actors have developed highly sophisticated tools to attack industrial control systems. Some attacks aim to steal data or infect user workstations, while other, mor...

Brian Romansky Chief Innovation Officer
Embedded Cybersecurity: A Paradigm Shift in Critical Infrastructure
The Shift from Stand-Alone To Embedded Cybersecurity
Industry 4.0, the ongoing move toward interconnectivity and automation in industrial process control, has opened a world of new po...