By Vesna Brajkovic, Associate Editor
Many North American railroads have teamed up with each other and their technology suppliers as of late to ensure their cybersecurity teams are able to identify and secure the potential vulnerabilities in their freight and passenger-rail networks that could lead to cyber attacks.
Amir Levintal, chief executive officer of Cylus — a railroad cybersecurity solution provider — has noticed an increase in cyber attacks in the rail industry over the past three years.
While many of those attacks are not being reported publicly, perhaps to protect the industry’s and railroads’ reputation, the sharing of that information between railroads is important because an attack on one network can be repeated on another, Levintal says.
To help identify, share and create best practices for responding to cybersecurity threats, several representatives from major North American freight and passenger…
