We tend to be familiar with “Information Technology” and the efforts organisations put to secure the data, applications, and systems we refer to IT. Operational Technology is less understood and only with the adoption of IoT, and more importantly, the attacks on infrastructure critical systems have the issue of securing OT become a point of … Read more
Digital twins are detailed electronic models that use IoT technology to update the digitised model based on changes happening to the source object. Vishnu Andhare, a consultant with the Information Services Group (ISG), believes that IoT (IoT) digital twin technology will continue to mature rapidly because of the demand for this technology across many industries … Read more
In an IoT ecosystem, you can interconnect multiple devices to the internet and to each other to process data and transmit it over a network. From controlling a home network to those that power gas lines, it is this connectivity to the Internet that makes IoT devices vulnerable to intrusion. It is estimated that 1.5 … Read more
Gartner observed that in the past three years, nearly 20% of organisations have already observed cyberattacks on IoT devices in their network. IoT Analytics forecasts that globally the number of connected IoT devices will grow at 9% annually, reaching 27 billion IoT connections by 2025. Riding on this growth of connected devices is an increased … Read more
In 2013, the Bowman Avenue Dam in New York In December 2015, three utility companies in Ukraine became victims of BlackEnergy malware which targeted the firms’ supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. By the programmable logic controllers (PLC) The Stuxnet computer virus disrupted the Iranian nuclear program by damaging centrifuges used to separate nuclear … Read more