Microsoft has released its third edition of Cyber Signals, a regular cyber threat intelligence brief spotlighting security trends and insights gathered from Microsoft’s 43 trillion daily security signals and 8,500 security experts.
This edition highlights new insights on the wider risks that converging IT, internet of things (IoT), and operational technology (OT) systems pose to critical infrastructure, and how enterprises can defend against these attacks.
OT is a combination of hardware and software across programmable systems or devices that interact with the physical environment (or manage devices that interact with the physical environment).
Examples of OT can include building management systems, fire control systems, and physical access control mechanisms, like doors and elevators.
According to the briefing, with increasing connectivity across converging IT, OT, and IoT, organisations and individuals need to rethink cyber risk impact and consequences.
Similar to how the loss of a laptop or modern vehicle containing a homeowner’s cached Wi-Fi credentials could grant a property thief unauthorised network access, compromising a manufacturing facility’s…
