How do you know when a perfect storm is brewing? If your team is tasked with securing your organization’s operational technology and industrial control systems (OT/ICS), you may have a pretty good idea by now.
In critical infrastructure industries, the warning signs have been hard to miss lately. They include the convergence of business IT and OT systems, now accelerated in the cloud; proliferation of database-driven ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) and phishing campaigns; and large-scale targeting of remote workers and remote access vulnerabilities in critical industries since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.