It would be nice if cyberattacks started to slow down. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case, especially for industrial organizations. Earlier this year, Trend Micro Incorporated announced new data showcasing that “89 percent of electricity, oil and gas,...
As Anil Bhaskar writes for Forbes, “The traditional way of performing equipment maintenance using tools, materials, checklists and clipboards is inefficient.” This could not be closer to the truth. We are in an age of complete digital transformation for...
In a recent announcement, the Ukrainian government revealed that it is once again preparing for “massive cyberattacks” that it fears Russian hackers will carry out on critical infrastructure facilities. They also shared their concern for institutions located in...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently put out an industrial control systems (ICS) advisory alerting operators of seven security flaws in Dataprobe's iBoot-PDU power distribution unit product. As described at the Hacker News,...
In their ‘IoT Signals: Manufacturing Spotlight‘ report, Microsoft and Intel summarize that maintenance monitoring and automation are the biggest overarching areas that companies are banking on when it comes to industrial IoT technologies. They are also the...
Cyberattacks on the manufacturing sector can have severe impacts.
A new age for plant floors is unfolding with the rising popularity of smart factories. The dawn of this Industry 4.0 staple comes as the adoption of 5G networks increases and connectivity becomes the norm. While regions of the world, including Europe and the United...
Last week, we were given yet another reminder about the importance of critical infrastructure security when an outage of Rogers telecommunications services impacted Canadians across the country. While the company stated that the issue stemmed from a "maintenance...
When Abbott Nutrition voluntarily shut down a facility on February 17th due to contaminated products, it ignited a frenzy. Parents and caregivers were left scrambling to get their hands on baby formula as a shortage ensued. Not only did this crisis expose the fact...
The next generation of manufacturing is upon us. Whether it is being referred to as the fourth industrial revolution, Industry 4.0 or 4IR, its impact is undeniable.
Last year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) made a strange request. It put a call out to be hacked. As explained in Forbes, hackers were essentially asked to discover the vulnerabilities existing within the DHS systems for a possible reward of up to...
A recent Power Engineering article opened by bringing us back to 2015. Even before there was the ongoing turmoil that we face today with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, that year marked a significant event unto itself. A series of outages impacted nearly a quarter of...
