Critical infrastructure under attack: lessons from a honeypot

Abstract

As its name suggests, critical infrastructure is just that – critical. It includes facilities, information, processes and systems upon which our society functions and depends – from energy and our water supply, to transport, election systems and the government. The health sector too is pivotal in supporting everyday citizens and never has this been clearer than today, in the midst of a pandemic. Critical infrastructure includes facilities, information, processes and systems upon which our society functions and depends. And it is increasingly under attack. To counter this threat, critical infrastructure operators should aim to minimise mean time to response when attacks occur. They also need to gain more visibility into their systems – particularly between the IT and OT environments. And security needs to be an intrinsic element in all OT systems, right from the initial design, argues Israel Barak, Cybereason.