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Today, the proliferation of cyber attacks against service operators, organisations and strategic companies is a worrying reality that calls for urgent protective measures – and all the more so when the consequences of such attacks can be catastrophic for the entire population. Electricity suppliers are particularly...https://www.stormshield.com/news/whats-new-in-the-world-of-ransomware-in-2020/
Since early 2020, ransomware attacks have increased in number and made front-page headlines. All professionals – large companies and small operations alike – seem vulnerable in the face of this evolving threat. And the number of cases of attacks – with varying degrees of success...https://www.stormshield.com/news/how-the-iec-61850-standard-structures-the-electrical-industry/
The International Electrotechnical Commission writes the standards that govern how the electrical industry works. And among this proliferation of standards – which sometimes come with rather forbidding abbreviations – one has a very special role to play, as it specifies communications for electricity distribution infrastructure....https://www.stormshield.com/news/how-can-the-security-of-industrial-protocols-be-controlled/
Communicate, inform, order... in the industrial world, PLCs have their own language to communicate with each other and operate an entire operational infrastructure. This is what’s known as industrial communication protocols. It is a lexical field which has laid semantic foundations for the notions of...https://www.stormshield.com/news/why-do-updates-pose-a-problem-in-the-cybersecurity-world/
Ah updates… Those pesky updates, all too often labelled as “restrictive”. However, these updates exist for our own good. And although it’s often difficult to make reasonable IT security choices if these are detrimental to production, updating is something which can’t be put off until...