Critical Infrastructure news stories

Infoblox has seen unprecedented levels of demand for cyber protection from companies outside of the Critical Infrastructure Act who have discovered security events and those who fear falling victim to IP theft.

Barracuda Networks has released key findings from a report titled The State of Industrial Security in 2022, finding that critical infrastructure is under attack.

Macquarie Cloud Services has committed to a five-year deal with FirstWave Cloud Technology for the provision of network monitoring and intelligence software.

Murphy's role will focus on assisting building cyber resilience for operational technology (OT) and helping orgs to achieve strong outcomes for OT security.

Energy executives anticipate life, property, and environment-compromising cyber attacks on the sector within the next two years.

Critical infrastructure - that term by itself sounds impressive, maybe even distressing. But what makes critical infrastructure so significant?

“We’re at a critical juncture in cybersecurity and observing increasingly hostile behaviour across an ever-expanding attack surface."

The alliance is focused on helping customers use data optimisation, infrastructure management services and a cyber resilience solution.

Australia's Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Act 2021, extends cybersecurity provisions to data, finance, water, energy, and more.

“Our research shows that critical infrastructure security is at a pivotal juncture, where threats are proliferating and evolving, but there’s also a growing collective interest and desire in protecting our most essential systems."

In December 2015, an unprecedented cyber-attack against a power grid left nearly a quarter of a million people without electricity for hours in Ukraine. And though this incident occurred overseas, Australia is not immune to threats against critical infrastructure.

Attacks will range from extortions using stolen data to the penetration of critical supply chains.

Nozomi Networks has partnered with BT to deliver advanced OT and IoT cybersecurity to enterprises on a global scale.

The Sabbath ransomware affiliate group is continuing to rebrand itself while still launching relentless ransomware operations, according to new research from Mandiant. 

The two companies will join forces with the aim to build the world’s largest industrial cybersecurity practice, defending critical infrastructure against emergent cyber threats, DNV wrote in a statement.

The companies will integrate Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Next-Generation Firewalls and Siemens Ruggedcom Multi-Service Platforms to enable continuous scalable hardware.

“The program is designed for partners to progress through three partnership tiers, facilitate growth, and unlock additional rewards and incentives that are relevant to their business."

"Our expansion in APJ is a reflection of this growing demand as well as the success we’ve achieved to date in the region, and we look forward to working with our strong ecosystem of partners to continue building upon this success.”

"Despite the criticality, the cybersecurity measures in place are still weak or nonexistent."

"As more enterprises are modernising their industrial processes by connecting them to the cloud, they are also giving threat actors more ways to compromise industrial operations through ransomware and extortion attacks."

OT cybersecurity specialists, Secolve, and US-based security software specialist, SecurityGate.io, are joining forces in an Australian first partnership ahead of new critical infrastructure legislation.

In Techday's second IT Jam with BeyondTrust, we speak to the company's sales engineer Scott Hesford about critical infrastructure and how best to secure it.

"With this new investment from the most prestigious firms in the world, we have the financial runway to execute on our proven product strategy in a hyper-growth market."

Vectra AI director of security engineering Chris Fisher explains why ransomware attacks on critical national infrastructure are becoming increasingly common.