IoT

The attack on the Oldsmar, Fla., water treatment plant earlier this year raised the profile of operational technology events and attacks on critical infrastructure. Today’s columnist, Duncan Greatwood of Xage, offers insights into how organizations can adopt a Zero Trust approach to protect against similar attacks.

Challenges include avoiding false-positive alerts, understanding a complex blend of IT and OT, and establishing policies on attack response.

The vulnerability was actively exploited in the wild – the company’s seventh such announcement of a zero-day patch in the past five months.

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada. Now experts are weighing in on the potential ramifications that can befall an organization if security footage is leaked or falls into the wrong hands.

A few years ago hackers entered an unnamed casino’s data network by exploiting IoT devices in a lobby fish tank. Today’s columnist, Ian Ferguson of Lynx Software Technologies, offers advice on how to lock down IoT systems.

Today’s columnist, Liviu Arsene of Bitdefender, offers some actionable advice to security pros for locking down networks in the work-from-home era.

Some of the tested stacks, which are also used in industrial equipment and other networked products, have yet to be patched.