The cyber threats facing Industrial Control Systems (ICS) include nation-state attacks, hacktivists, criminals and even trusted insiders. The frequency and ferocity of attacks are growing and continue to pose a major challenge to those ICS practitioners and cybersecurity teams tasked with protecting our critical national infrastructure (CNI).
The impact of potential threats to these systems relates to physical processes and can result in downtime of systems causing power, electricity or water outages. Any downtime can affect a plant’s ability to operate, its productivity and availability. For this reason, organizations that support critical infrastructure need to ensure the safety of workers, environmental impact and other aspects of operations.