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NERC CIP Compliance for OT Cybersecurity – What Energy Sector Operators Need to Know
A substation control network does not get a maintenance window because an auditor is coming. That tension sits underneath every conversation about NERC CIP compliance in the energy sector. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical…
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The Defense Industry’s Growing Investment in Cybersecurity
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…
Industry Insights: Securing the Defense Industry
As Infosecurity Magazine just reported, US Department of Defense (DoD) officials have received improved cybersecurity guidance for reviewing contractors thanks to the updated Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. Reaching this next level in…
Industry Insights: Talent Shortage Emphasizes Need for Smart OT Cybersecurity Strategies
While there are many ongoing challenges that companies face in the pursuit of operational security, the talent shortage is one of the most vexing. In fact, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) recently partnered with the Office of Management…
A Call to Arms: Shielding the Defense Industry
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…
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…
