Kaspersky Reports on Evolving Threat Landscape of Industrial Control Systems

  • Issue

    October 12, 2021

  • Editor

    Paul Scott

  • Editor in Chief

    Amery Smock

  • Date

    10/9/2021

  • Analysis

    The Russian multinational cybersecurity company Kaspersky released it's analysis of the “Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems” for the first half of 2021, based on statistics gleaned from it's antivirus software deployed on industrial control systems computers such as SCADA servers and process data historians.

    Kaspersky claims that:
    •     33% of ICS computers with it's software blocked objects in the first half of 2021 -- down from a high of 41% in 2018.
    •    Kaspersky products deployed in building automation systems were the most likely to have blocked an object
    •    The largest class of blocked objects were requests to access suspicious Internet resources

    The report provides useful data in assessing a variety of risks faced by industrial control systems throughout the world.

  • Sources

    [1] Kaspersky Report https://ics-cert.kaspersky.com/media/Kaspersky-ICS-CERT-Threat-landscape-for-industrial-automation-systems-statistics-for-H1-2021-En.pdf

  • Analyst

    Jack Hall

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