Critical infrastructure like industrial control systems (ICS) experienced increased frequency of high and critical vulnerabilities, according to a new report.
Claroty’s biannual ICS Risk & Vulnerability Report found that reported ICS vulnerabilities disclosed in the first half of 2021 had increased by 41%.
According to the VP of research at Claroty, Amir Preminger, as more organizations are connected to the cloud due to digital transformation, they expanded the attack surface for threat actors to exploit.
Critical infrastructure security vulnerabilities increasing monumentally
Security researchers at industrial cybersecurity company Claroty said that over 637 ICS vulnerabilities were disclosed in the first half of 2021 compared to 449 vulnerabilities disclosed in the second half of 2020.
Similarly, critical manufacturing security vulnerabilities increased by 25% in 2020 from 2019 and 33% from 2018. However, vendors lagged in discovering and reporting critical infrastructure security vulnerabilities.
According to the report, most (81%) ICS vulnerabilities were disclosed by external entities like third-party companies, security…
