5 Reasons Why IT Security Tools Don't Work For OT
While IT and OT both seek to ensure confidentiality (the protection of sensitive
data and assets), integrity (the fidelity of data over its lifecycle), and
availability (the accessibility and responsiveness of resources and
infrastructure), they prioritize different pieces of this CIA triad.IT's highest
priority is confidentiality. IT deals in data, and the stakeholders of IT
concern themselves with protecting that data — from trade secrets to the
personal information of users and customers. OT's highest priority is
availability. OT processes operate heavy-duty equipment in the physical realm,
and for them, availability means safety. Downtime is simply untenable when
shutting off a blast furnace or industrial boiler tank. For the sake of
availability and responsiveness, most OT components weren't built to accommodate
security implementations at all. ... Almost all IT-based tools require downtime
for installation, updates, and patching. These activities are generally a
non-starter for industrial environments, no matter how significant a
vulnerability may be. Again, downtime for OT systems means putting safety at
risk.
Oshkosh CIO Anu Khare on IT’s pursuit of value
VSP stands for value, strategic fit, and passionate sponsor. The framework ties
to my fundamental philosophy of letting cost, value, and the customer decide
what is valuable and what is not valuable for our customers. We didn’t start
with VSP, but it evolved as a guiding framework, as we looked at our portfolio
enablement process and asked ourselves, what’s the simplest way to approach
project portfolio management? First, we decided to focus on the value. We
started working with the business sponsors to articulate where and what impact
the technology will have on the business. We then validate with finance, and if
it has a hard savings, it gets No. 1 priority in terms of investment. The
relentless focus on value also leads to the second point, which is strategic
fit. The project may be valuable, but in any organization, the list of things
the organization can do is always bigger than what the organization can afford
or should afford. This is a capital allocation discussion? So we focus on the
strategic fit.
Cisco spotlights generative AI in security, collaboration
Security and IT administrators will be able to describe granular security
policies and the assistant willl evaluate how to best implement them across
different aspects of their security infrastructure, Patel said. At the Live!
event, Cisco demoed how a generative Cisco Policy Assistant can reason with the
existing set of firewall policy rules to implement and simplify them within the
Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center. Cisco says it is the first of many
examples of how generative AI can reimagine policy management across the Cisco
Security Cloud. ... In addition, he said the security assistant will let
customers describe and contextualize events across email, the web, endpoints,
and the network to tell security operation center (SOC) analyst exactly what
happened, the impact, and best next steps to take to remediate problems and set
new policies. The SOC Assistant will provide a comprehensive situation analysis
for analysts, correlating intel across the Cisco Security Cloud, relaying
potential impacts, and providing recommended actions with the goal of reducing
the time needed for SOC teams to respond to potential threats, he said.
How WASM (and Rust) Unlocks the Mysteries of Quantum Computing
Rather than picking from fixed specs, quantum programming can require you to
define the setup of your quantum hardware, describing the quantum circuit that
will be formed by the qubits and as well as the algorithm that will run on it —
and error-correcting the qubits while the job is running — with a language like
OpenQASM; that’s rather like controlling an FPGA with a hardware description
language like Verilog. You can’t measure a qubit to check for errors directly
while it’s working or you’d end the computation too soon, but you can measure an
extra qubit and extrapolate the state of the working qubit from that. What you
get is a pattern of measurements called a syndrome. In medicine, a syndrome is a
pattern of symptoms used to diagnose a complicated medical condition like
fibromyalgia. In quantum computing, you have to “diagnose” or decode qubit
errors from the pattern of measurements, using an algorithm that can also decide
what needs to be done to reverse the errors and stop the quantum information in
the qubits from decohering before the quantum computer finishes running the
program.
Energy security needs a secure IoT
The IoT has a central role to play as governments and industries work to reduce
dependence on fossil fuels, establish new forms of energy generation and
implement sufficient means of storing, managing and distributing energy. ... IoT
connected devices and systems can contribute carbon tracking and smart-meter
energy monitoring; they can enable data exchange for microgrids and support
mechanisms for selling energy directly back into the network. These solutions
will transmit data so that energy companies can monitor devices and conditions,
control devices in remote locations, track performance to predict maintenance
cycles and act on alerts. They will be able to monitor energy consumption for
smart metering through connected meters and sensors for load balancing on the
grid. In this way, connectivity is part of the intelligent, efficient, renewable
energy model, however it must be cybersecure. As new and additional devices are
deployed, they could present more pathways for potential cyberattacks. That is a
significant risk and safeguards are therefore needed to protect against
unauthorised access to devices, networks, management platforms and cloud
infrastructure.
How to Get Unstuck From Stress and Find Solutions Inside Yourself
The balance of sympathetic and parasympathetic states is critical both for our
well-being and for the cultivation of presence. Neither state is superior to the
other. They are opposite and equal in their importance. Both are needed to
dynamically maintain the homeostasis of the body. (Remember, a state of polarity
is the ability to go from one state to the other in alternation, as needed.) As
with any ecosystem, complementary forces are necessary to preserve harmony. The
trouble is that our regular thinking and doing in the world of business are
sympathetically activating. It is not possible to use only the mind to become
relaxed and restore balance to the nervous system. We need to counterbalance our
SNS (sympathetic nervous system) activation through feeling and being. This is a
whole new mode that many high-powered leaders are less familiar with and may not
entirely trust. The good news, however, is that when we are in a relaxed,
parasympathetic state, we can access the capabilities of our higher intelligence
that we need for presence and collaboration, such as visualization and
spontaneous generative creativity.
Daily Standups May Not Improve Your Team’s Agility
To make sure every team member gets the support they need, I highly recommend
having at least once per week a longer team meeting, something we call “team
time”. This meeting should be 30–45 min long and ensure there is enough time to
really get to the bottom of a problem and find a solution. Every team member can
propose a topic and the team discusses it together. If there are no challenges
to discuss, this is also a great forum for other ways of knowledge share. When
you are summing up these costs, you will be in a similar or even more expensive
range than daily standups, but those meetings are actually helpful since they
allow the team to solve problems and share knowledge and, with that, replace
other meetings and make work more efficient. The social aspect is something that
is rarely stated as a need for daily standups. But, for me, this is a
misconception. A healthy and social team will always be an efficient team.
Developing a proper team atmosphere and spirit should be key and in the interest
of everyone.
Everything Is Connected: Five IoT Trends Moving Forward
In what sounds like old news at this point, cybersecurity will continue to be at
the forefront of business decision making. What is different this year is the
rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and ML. AI and ML are making malicious
actors more efficient and potentially more effective when carrying out attacks.
Natural Language Models such as ChatGPT have opened new directions of attack as
well as lowering the overall threshold for creating effective malicious code.
Additionally, the changing legislative landscape around privacy will spur
companies to take a hard look at the way that they collect, use, and retain
sensitive personal data. This may require a complete redesign of products,
procedures, or in fact, entire business models. ... Finally, it is no secret
that the tech labor market is in a state of upheaval. Many companies are
reducing or restricting their workforces as they seek efficiency or profits.
This exodus of talented tech professionals has created severe knowledge gaps
that must be addressed.
API Management Is a Commodity: What’s Next?
As API management software unbundles the gateway and adapts to the multi-gateway
world, new and emerging software vendors are looking to fill the resulting
requirement gaps for API design and development, security, analytics, portals,
and marketplaces. Alex Walling, field CTO for Rapid, sees that developers
need a layer of abstraction on top of their existing API gateways, such as those
from WSO2, Kong, and Apigee so that they can find APIs easily and check whether
someone has already developed an API for what they need. Moreover, Derric
Gilling, CEO of Moesif, said he believes that API Gateways will become just one
of the specialized pieces of the API stack developers and organizations will
need to assemble to meet the growing adoption of APIs. He sees business models
for APIs evolving beyond simply charging for API invocation counts, and the need
for a specialized analytics solution to keep pace. Along with the continued
explosion of interest in APIs, especially as organizations use more third-party
APIs, the development and testing process becomes more complex and
time-consuming.
AI: Interpreting regulation and implementing good practice
Emerging standards, guidance and regulation for AI are being created worldwide,
and it will be important to align this and create a common understanding for
producers and consumers. Organizations such as ETSI, ENISA, ISO and NIST are
creating helpful cross-referenced frameworks for us to follow, and regional
regulators, such as the EU, are considering how to penalize bad practices. In
addition to being consistent, however, the principles of regulation should be
flexible, both to cater for the speed of technological development and to enable
businesses to apply appropriate requirements to their capabilities and risk
profile. An experimental mindset, as demonstrated by the Singapore Land
Transport Authority’s testing of autonomous vehicles, can allow academia,
industry and regulators to develop appropriate measures. These fields need to
come together now to explore AI systems’ safe use and development. Cooperation,
rather than competition, will enable safer use of this technology more
quickly.
Quote for the day:
"Men who are in earnest are not afraid
of consequences." -- Marcus Garvey
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