“ JUST BECAUSE YOU MAKE BAKED BEANS, RATHER THAN BULLETS OR BOMBS, THAT DOESN’ T MEAN YOU’ RE NOT A TARGET”
Warren O’ Driscoll Head of Security Practice, Services
& Solutions for the UK & Ireland NTT DATA in energy and utilities. With prices regulated, they can’ t easily increase revenues to cover the growing costs of meeting the cyber threat – so they’ re being asked to fix more with less. And the threat is expanding rapidly with the rise in operational technology( OT) cyberattacks.
With firms connecting more OT devices – like Supervisory Control and Data Acquisitions( SCADAs) and Incident Command Systems( ICSs) – to IT and cloud networks, that’ s opened a massive new attack surface.
Attackers don’ t need physical access to valves and control switches, not when they can hack the environment