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The 10 Most Impactful Types of Vulnerabilities for Enterprises TodayManaging system vulnerabilities is one of the old est - and most frustrating - security challenges that enterprise defenders face. Every software application and hardware device ships with intrinsic flaws - flaws that, if critical enough, attackers can exploit from anywhere in the world. It's crucial that defenders take stock of what areas of the tech stack have the most emerging, and critical, vulnerabilities they must manage. It's not just zero day vulnerabilities. Consider that CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog lists vulnerabilitlies in widely used applications that are "actively exploited," and most of them are flaws that were discovered several years ago and have been fixed. There are also emerging vulnerabilities in 5G networks, cloud infrastructure, Edge applications, and firmwares to consider.
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6/23/2017 | 7:21:58 AM
While IT people worry about CIA, ICS experts shall worry about SRP (Safety - Reliability-Productivity). None want to be blamed for a painful outage or damage just because they patched the OS.
ICS cyber experts know very well that every change to ICS hardware or software is a severe risk to SRP. So... what is the solution? where we want to be in 5 or 10 years? You shall plan building a brand new and modern control room, build it with modern hardware and software and fit the original application to the new system.
But ! be ready that it will not work. Plan for spending 4-6 months and test it before you can commision the new control room.
The result is funny: The new control room will be as good as the old one and not better ! But it will have strong cyber defense solutions build in and will be ready for periodic cyber security upgrades.
Yes, it worth the investment, and also there is no alternative!