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Fanless Industrial PC – What It Is, Why It Matters, and When You Need One
A fan is the single moving part standing between your industrial computer and a maintenance call it didn’t need to have. On a clean office desk, that’s a minor inconvenience. On a plant floor coated in flour dust, cutting fluid, or metal shavings,…
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CrowdStrike & The Importance of Separating IT and OT
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…
Industry Insights: The Efficiency of Deployment
Having spent decades in the industrial space, we understand that maintaining operations is time consuming. With the already demanding daily requirements, the thought of having to add something else can be overwhelming. So, too often we encounter hesitation to…
AI and the Olympics: The Latest in Cybersecurity
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,…
Industry Insights: Gaining Control with Hardware and Software Solutions
The DYNICS team kicked off the summer with a busy schedule, traveling to states such as Ohio, Alabama, and Georgia to meet with a variety of operators. And as we do each month, we have a brand-new takeaway to share. It seemed that throughout June we were again and…
Threats to the Power Grid: The Collision of Extreme Weather and Cybersecurity
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…
Industry Insights: Offering a Unique Value Proposition
In May, DYNICS headed to Automate 2024, the leading automation event in North America. While we were there, a few recurring themes popped up, with many being ones we covered in our previous Industry Insights posts. Of course, there were the standard zero-trust…
Water Cybersecurity Efforts Come to a Boil
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…
DYNICS Industry Insights: Control Your Network
At the beginning of May, the NSA and CISA released an urgent warning regarding pro-Russian hacktivists targeting OT networks and monitoring systems throughout the U.S. and Europe. In a fact sheet co-authored by the FBI, Environmental Protection Agency, Department…
Cybersecurity and AI: Friends, Foes, or Both?
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…
DYNICS Industry Insights: Risk Efficiency and Mitigation
Imagine you only have one dollar to spend, and there is only so much time in the day to figure out how to best utilize it. You have to ask yourself…How do I keep the plant floor running with efficient time and resources? That’s the question many working with OT are…
Protecting Against the Typhoon: A Warning for Critical Infrastructure
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…
DYNICS Industry Insights: The Importance of Risk Analysis
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) just released an updated draft of its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), which expands on the original’s mission to provide critical infrastructure operators with much-needed cybersecurity guidance. While…
