All Cyber-Kinetic Security & Cybersecurity Posts
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
Growing Cyber-Kinetic Threats to Railway Systems
Cybersecuring railway systems from potential attackers must become paramount in the digitization that those systems currently undergo. Their cybersecurity is too closely interlinked with the railway safety to leave the door open to disruption. To make matters worse, they are increasingly being targeted. Railway systems have long been critical. Mass transit systems move hundreds of thousands of people throughout urban areas each work day. Freight…
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5G Security
5G Making It More Important for Governments to Lead IoT Security
The human brain is programmed to keep us safe and secure. Yes, we are separated from the rest of the animal kingdom by our advanced capacities of sense-making and decision-making, but at the core of our grey matter remains some primitive but powerful tech tasked with keeping us alive. If your amygdala senses danger, it makes a split second decision and triggers the fight-or-flight response,…
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
Intentional Electromagnetic Interference (IEMI) IoT Threat
As IoT adoption continues to proliferate, manufactures and adopters are increasingly aware of cybersecurity risks to IoT. Yet, even among the IoT security professionals, one significant potential remote attack vector is often overlooked: intentional electromagnetic interference (IEMI). Electromagnetic interference (EMI) surrounds us – natural causes, such as solar flares and lightning; and man-made sources such as radio and TV broadcasting, radars, microwaves and many others…
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
Canadian Critical Infrastructure Cyber Protection
Targeted cyberattacks against critical infrastructure (CI) are increasing on a global scale. Critical systems are rapidly being connected to the internet, affording attackers opportunities to target virtual systems that operate and monitor physical structures and physical processes through various modes of cyberattack. When people think of cyberattacks, their minds often go first to the financial sector. After all, that’s the type of attack people hear…
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
The Challenge of IT and OT Asset Discovery
Every CISO understands the simple truth: you can’t protect what you don’t know you have. A comprehensive inventory of IT and OT assets - from servers and laptops to industrial controllers and IoT sensors - is the foundation of effective cybersecurity. In theory, building this asset inventory sounds straightforward. In practice, it’s one of the hardest tasks in cybersecurity today. Many enterprises find that even…
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
Stuxnet: The Father of Cyber-Kinetic Weapons
While Stuxnet is gone, the world now knows what can be accomplished through cyber-kinetic attacks. As we approach the 10th anniversary of when Stuxnet was (likely) deployed, it is worthwhile to examine the effect it still has on our world. As the world’s first-ever cyberweapon, it opened Pandora’s box. It was the first true cyber-kinetic weapon – and it changed military history and is changing…
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
Growing Cyber-Kinetic Vulnerabilities of Railway Systems
In their growing efforts to increase efficiencies through digitization and automation, railways are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyber-kinetic attacks as they move away from strictly mechanical systems and bespoke standalone systems to digital, open-platform, standardized equipment built using Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) components. In addition, the increasing use of networked control and automation systems enable remote access of public and private networks. Finally, the…
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
IEMI – Threat of Intentional Electromagnetic Interference
As our cities, our transportation, our energy and manufacturing – our everything – increasingly embrace Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Controls Systems (ICS), securing its underlying cyber-physical systems (CPS) grows ever more crucial. Yet, even among engineers and cybersecurity specialists, one potential attack trajectory is often overlooked: Intentional Electromagnetic Interference (IEMI). ICS and IoT – digital systems that run today’s modern society – rely…
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