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How to minimize remote access cyber security threats in 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

The remote work revolution has pushed companies to rethink their security and data protection practices amidst hybrid work and cloud environments. trillion by 2025, as cyber risk management has not kept up with digital transformation posing serious risks to organizations’ security and revenue.

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Agencies Warn of Pro-Russia Hackers Targeting OT Control Systems

SecureWorld News

According to a new joint cybersecurity alert , the hacktivists have been observed gaining remote access to small-scale industrial control systems used in water/wastewater, dams, energy, and food and agriculture by exploiting internet-exposed human-machine interfaces (HMIs) and using default or weak passwords.

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Naturally Better Security: Leveraging the power of nature to enhance Internet security

CTOvision

Solutions inspired by nature are being applied to diverse fields including energy production, medicine and healthcare, architecture, food production, transportation and manufacturing. In Europe, attacks have damaged the energy sector, and many believe more onslaughts against critical infrastructure and services are in our future.

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Robust remote access security for the utilities sector advances with Zero Trust

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s likely the case that the rapid growth of connected assets is outstripping security capabilities. One analyst firm predicts that by 2026, industrial organizations will have more than 15 billion new and legacy assets connected to the cloud, internet, and 5G. This can make securing utilities especially challenging.

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Iranian Hackers Target U.S. Water Facility

SecureWorld News

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) responded to an active cyberattack on a water facility in western Pennsylvania, shedding light on the exploitation of Unitronics programmable logic controllers (PLCs) within the Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) sector. Disconnect the PLC from the open internet.

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Three Impediments to the Internet of Things

The Investing Edge

This post is the final installment of a three-part series on the Internet of Things, along with What Nest Just Did for the Internet of Things and Why the Internet of Things is also Industry 4.0. Also, existing Internet connections provide for transactions, not negotiation. Security needs to improve.

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A Vision of Radical Networking Simplicity

CIO Business Intelligence

Count them: the home Wi-Fi, the ISP, the Internet, a Domain Name System (DNS) provider, a content delivery network (CDN), applications distributed among multiple providers in multiple clouds, credit authentication companies, a private customer information database. Tapping an app on a mobile device at home relies on many connections.

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