It has been reported that the Idaho National Laboratory, part of the U.S. Department of Energy and one of the country’s foremost advanced nuclear energy testing labs, experienced a massive data breach on the night of Sunday November 26, leading to the leak of employee addresses, Social Security numbers, bank account information and much more. INL […]
Tenable has expanded its partnership with Siemens Energy to further secure operational technology (OT) environments in the energy sector. Siemens Energy will integrate Tenable OT Security into their Omnivise T3000 control system as a network intrusion detection system (NIDS), in addition to already leveraging Tenable OT Security for asset discovery and vulnerability management. Siemens Energy’s […]
A wind farm operator has successfully implemented the Dragos Platform. Here we consider the specific challenges faced by renewable energies – specifically wind – and examine how the Dragos Platform provides visibility and facilitates triage, detection and response across the operator’s network. Dragos focuses on arming organisations with the resources required for comprehensive network security. […]
Report pinpoints proliferation of Generative AI circumventing approaches to authentication and verification of identity. Ensign InfoSecurity has released its latest Cyber Threat Landscape report showing the biggest threats and vulnerabilities across some of Asia’s key economies – including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea and Hong Kong. This year, the report incorporates a new approach […]
IBM Security has released its 2023 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, which revealed that the UK’s energy industry was among the primary targets for cyberattacks for the second consecutive year, seeing 16% of all attacks. The UK was the top-attacked country in Europe, accounting for 43% of the attacks X-Force observed, followed by Germany (14%), Portugal (9%), […]
Illumio, the Zero Trust Segmentation company, and Armis, a leading asset visibility and security company, have announced a joint solution designed to stop breaches across IT and OT environments. The solution builds cyber-resilience throughout the hybrid attack surface by delivering comprehensive visibility and asset intelligence across Information Technology (IT), Internet of Things (IoT) and Operational […]
Barracuda, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, has released its fourth-annual threat research report on ransomware. The new report looks at ransomware attack patterns that occurred between August 2021 and July 2022. For the 106 highly publicised attacks Barracuda researchers analysed, the dominant targets are still five key industries: education (15%), […]
SAS, a leader in analytics, has announced that Saudi Export-Import Bank (Saudi EXIM Bank) has chosen to use SAS technology to increase the governance and efficiency of its risk operations and reporting with model risk management solutions. The Saudi EXIM Bank was established in 2020 to promote the export of Saudi non-oil products and boost its competency across economic sectors in the global markets. The bank provides financing services, guarantees and credit insurance with competitive advantages to enhance confidence in […]
David Weisong, CIO at California-based environmental consulting firm Energy Solutions, explains how the company has gained a competitive advantage to win more business as a result of modernizing its security posture. Cyberattack threats against utility companies continue to rise in quantity and sophistication and, as the CIO of an environmental consulting firm that works with […]
