Operational Technology (OT) Cybersecurity: 4 Best Practices

Cyber-attacks on critical OT infrastructure have been on a stratospheric trajectory, increasing 2000% in recent years! Audacious attacks have been launched on everything from nuclear plants to water treatment facilities. In fact, a poisoning attack at a Florida water treatment facility was particularly scary because of how easily an attacker gained sensitive access via inadequate password management and how they were able to leverage unsophisticated actions via a consumer-grade remote access tool within the environment to order the system to increase the amount of lye in the water.