Senior executives at industrial and OT organizations increasingly need to understand the full scope of their cyber risks. However, their confidence with current monitoring for OT/IoT systems is typically low.

To help tackle this challenge, IBM and Nozomi Networks are expanding the capabilities and solutions we offer together to deliver unified IT, IoT, and OT cyber security.

The Wall Street Journal reported that more than a dozen U.S. utilities were targeted in the LookBack attack first revealed in August. Originally, security researchers divulged the details of a spearphishing campaign targeting three different United States utility companies. Now The Wall Street Journal has disclosed that FBI investigations have determined that hackers “homed in on smaller electricity providers in proximity to critical infrastructure.”

Here’s what we now know about the LookBack malware campaign.

Pharmaceutical companies are rapidly embracing digital transformation and innovative technologies to gain operational efficiencies. However, both automation and outsourcing increase cyber risk.

Where do the biggest security gaps lie? In the expanding threat surface created by increased connectivity between pharma’s IT, IoT, OT and cyber-physical systems.

Without visibility into your operational assets, you can’t answer three fundamental questions: what’s on your network, how are devices communicating, and is there anything connected to the internet that shouldn’t be?

To encourage more organizations to include OT and IoT assets in their security monitoring programs, we’ve released Guardian Community Edition (Guardian CE) – a free tool that provides visibility into these critical assets.

Three powerful developments are reshaping the world’s continuous OT monitoring requirements: the rapid convergence of IT/OT security, broader use of corporate SOCs and external security providers, and accelerating digital transformation.

Join ARC Advisory Group Vice President Sid Snitkin as he explores the impact each trend is having on core cyber security needs.