Protect your assets and safeguard your company's reputation by staying informed. Stay ahead of important changes and news with our cyber security blogs, designed specifically for power utilities in North America. We keep you informed on potential threats, CVEs, the newest trends, industry best practices, and industry news, all to help you keep your organization running as securely and risk-free as possible.
Cyber Security
Hacktivist group GhostSec, an affiliate of Anonymous, claims it executed the first-ever ransomware attack on a RTU (Remote Terminal Unit) as part of its "OpRussia" operation with GhostSec ransomware.
Cyber Security
In appreciation for Cyber Security Awareness Month during October, we are excited to provide a three-part article series on Cyber Security Risk Management for Critical Infrastructure Executives and Board Directors. This series will cover the following topics: 1. The Increasingly Threatening Cyber Threat Landscape for Critical Infrastructure Operators 2. Guidelines
Cyber Security
In appreciation for Cyber Security Awareness Month during October, we are excited to provide a three-part article series on Cyber Security Risk Management for Critical Infrastructure Executives and Board Directors. This series will cover the following topics: 1. The Increasingly Threatening Cyber Threat Landscape for Critical Infrastructure Operators 2. Guidelines
Cyber Security
In appreciation for Cyber Security Awareness Month during October, we are excited to provide a three-part article series on Cyber Security Risk Management for Critical Infrastructure Executives and Board Directors. This series will cover the following topics: 1. The Increasingly Threatening Cyber Threat Landscape for Critical Infrastructure Operators 2. Guidelines
Cyber Security
DOE, CISA, NSA, and the FBI urge critical infrastructure organizations, especially Energy Sector organizations, to implement the detection and mitigation recommendations provided in this CSA to detect potential malicious APT activity and harden their ICS/SCADA devices.
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U.S. Congress passed landmark legislation that mandates critical infrastructure providers and federal agencies promptly report cyberattacks and ransomware payments to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Read the Fact Sheet here! Fact Sheet Cyber Incident Reporting for CI Act 2021 Draft Fact-Sheet-Cyber-Incident-Reporting-for-CI-Act-2021-Draft.pdf 206 KB download-circle
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For years the security community has viewed internal resources as presenting the greatest cyber risk to an entity. In 2021, shortly on the heels of the much-publicized SolarWinds breach, as well as many other supply chain/third party cyber breaches, it can be argued that supply chain/third parties now
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On July 27th, 2020, the North American Reliability Corporation (NERC) released new reference material for mapping CIP Standards to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. The latest update from NERC provides much needed guidance on how NERC CIP standards are represented in a NIST profile. Acumen has developed an integrated cybersecurity program