While oil and gas may be top of mind when it comes to critical infrastructure, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) categorizes 16 sectors as critical infrastructure. As StateScoop describes, these “systems and networks are considered so...
In an article for Forbes, Dave Evans highlighted two very important stats. One came from the Financial Times, stating that “57% of U.S. industries would take 6 months to recover after 1 week of transport disruptions.” The other from the 2024 State of Manufacturing...
Cybersecurity has become a staple in daily business and operations discourse. Over the last few years, OT has slowly but surely earned a much-needed place in such conversations. With attention growing, we think 2025 will be one of the biggest years yet for OT....
Cybersecurity has increasingly become top-of-mind with events such as the recent ransomware attack on supply chain management software provider Blue Yonder serving as constant reminders of its pertinence. With OT becoming more and more looped into this concern, the...
As Forbes reports, there has been a significant increase in the military’s cybersecurity spending. In 2023 alone, the sector invested $36.9 billion, and that number is expected to reach $49.4 billion by 2028. This much needed attention is due to the alarming rise...
Reports have been unfolding around the recent strike targeting Hezbollah operatives. Carried out via exploding pagers, analysts believe that the incident “was likely the culmination of a complex intelligence operation that took months to execute,” according to...
July 19th was a fateful day for CrowdStrike. As you’ll recall, when CrowdStrike launched an update that day, it took down systems across the globe. Nearly every sector was impacted from travel to healthcare to banking. Now that we’re over a month out from the...
According to a report by AI Business, “the global AI industry is expected to grow in value from $88 billion in 2022 to $411 billion by 2027.” As the technologies emerging from this trend, such as large language models (LLMs) and generative AI, bring some benefit,...
The need to protect the power grid is heating up just like the temperature outside. Millions across the U.S. have been affected by the extreme heatwave blanketing states from the west coast to the midwest onto the east coast. On top of that, wildfires have broken...
Back in February, we covered the CISA, NSA, and FBI’s warning to ramp up U.S. ports and water systems cybersecurity. Now the call is resurging, particularly around water and wastewater systems. This time, the EPA is circulating an alert that demands operators boost...
If there is anything that our last few briefs on Volt Typhoon and the concerns over Chinese activity have proven, it is that cybersecurity is a global issue. And it is an issue that’s impact hits many levels and sectors - from consumers to executives and from...
The Volt Typhoon saga continues. As a reminder, Volt Typhoon is a China-based hacking group accused of targeting critical infrastructure, which we covered in our last industry brief. But since then, the concern around their ability to establish base camps in IT...
