Cybersecurity
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Bayshore Networks and GE Digital Expand Partnership to Secure Industrial and Critical Infrastructure Networks
GE Digital’s OpShield technology to be integrated into Bayshore Networks’ solutions DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Bayshore Networks and GE Digital today announced an expansion to their partnership to integrate their solutions to address the growing need to secure industrial and critical infrastructure networks. GE Digital’s OpShield technology will be integrated into Bayshore Networks’ advanced […]
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5 Cybersecurity Best Practices to Protect Your OT Systems
Over the last several years, cyber actors and online criminal gangs have used cyber warfare to disrupt business and infrastructure across the globe. Today, they are becoming even more aggressive and are using their resources to target Operations Technology (OT) and Industrial Control System (ICS) networks. According to the Canadian government’s Canadian Centre for Cyber […]
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Five Reasons Remote Technology Makes Sense Even If You Never Plan to Operate Your Power Plant Remotely
The case for advanced analytics and remote diagnostics During the last 25 years significant advancements have been made in remote monitoring capabilities for power plants. A number of operations and maintenance (O&M) functions can routinely be managed remotely, and it is also becoming more common for peaking and renewable energy plants to be remotely operated […]
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The Airgap Is Not Enough: The Failed Security Perimeter Paradigm in OT Networks
Operational technology (OT) electronics and networks for manufacturing, energy production, and virtually every other industrial application, are targets for cyberattacks. For infrastructure-related companies, such as power producers, transportation, and water plants, the OT networks are not only the revenue producers, but also important targets for destabilizing national security. Successful attacks can be destructive and costly, […]
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DOE Bans Utility Procurement of Chinese Equipment for Bulk Power System Security
The Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a “prohibition order” in line with President Trump’s May 2020 broad bulk power system (BPS) security executive order (EO 13920) that will ban some utility procurement of specific grid equipment from China. When it takes effect on Jan. 16, 2021, the Dec. 17–issued “Prohibition Order Securing Critical Defense […]
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How to Monitor Assets Remotely Today
As long as products have had ethernet ports, people have been asking for remote access to them. They believed they could just plug the devices into the internet, and it would all work. At first, there wasn’t necessarily a clear path to making this dream a reality without assistance from the user’s IT department. IT […]
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NAESB’s First Move to Set Energy Digitalization Standards Heavily Focused on Blockchain, Cybersecurity
The North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB), a wholesale and retail natural gas and power industry forum comprising 300 corporate members, will initially focus its standards development to support cybersecurity and blockchain out of 11 digital technologies it identified that are quickly transforming the energy space. The board’s April 2019–formed Digital Committee, which comprises 16 […]
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Cybersecurity in and for Large Energy Transmission Projects
Even before the Stuxnet malware program made international headlines in 2010, cybersecurity was an important issue for utility companies. In the aftermath of one of the largest attacks on supervisory control
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How Biden’s Presidency Could (Further) Transform the Power Sector
Joe Biden on Nov. 7 clinched the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency, barring Donald Trump’s prospects for a second-term. Almost immediately, reactions from various parts of the power sector streamed in, highlighting possibilities and pitfalls of Biden’s wide-ranging energy and environment agenda. Energy, and its implications on the environment, figured prominently as […]
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Nozomi Networks Pioneers SaaS Security and Visibility Solution for Dynamic IoT and OT Networks
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27, 2020 — Nozomi Networks Inc., the leader in OT and IoT security, today introduced Vantage™, an innovative SaaS-based OT and IoT network visibility and monitoring solution designed to meet the evolving requirements of IoT-enabled infrastructures. “Vantage is a game-changer when it comes to simplifying the integration and centralized management of visibility […]
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