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
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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
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