From: JDSupra Business Advisor
By Odia Kagan, Suzanne Lufadeju, Philip Yannella | Ballard Spahr LLP
n 2013 alone, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) responded to more than 256 cyber-incident reports—more than half of them in the energy sector. Such attacks were prevalent in 2014 as well: DHS investigated 245 incidents last year, including documented attacks targeting local water authorities in the United States.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which develops information security standards and guidelines to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure, recently published its second revision to Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security. The guide highlights the unique cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities to which ICSs are increasingly exposed and steps organizations utilizing ICSs should take to mitigate them.
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