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If you’re using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) to build an effective organizational security strategy in an operational technology (OT) environment, we’ve put together a five-part blog series on how you can mature your security program in each of the five functions of this framework. Building on our previous blog post on how to jumpstart […]

By 2023, the overall number of “connected” devices worldwide will increase to over 35.2 billion according to IDC.1 Staggering though this number is, more worrying is what organizations know, or don’t know, about those devices. According to a 2019 Ponemon study, breaches resulting from “unsecured IoT devices or applications increased from 15 percent to 26 […]

In more than two decades working with industrial networks – as a software engineer building them, as a system engineer integrating new machines into production lines, and as a network engineer troubleshooting and fixing them – it surprises me how often asset owners don’t have the faintest idea about what is going on in their […]

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) provides critical infrastructure organizations with parameters for assessing and improving their ability to prevent, detect and respond to cyber incidents. According to the 2019 SANS State of OT/ICS Cybersecurity Survey, the NIST CSF is the most popular framework in use by critical infrastructure organizations today. For those of you planning […]

We tend to forget how strongly our personal habits can influence businesses and their operations when it comes to cybersecurity. In 2020, which researchers believe is “the year of IoT”, every technological trend will have the power to strongly sway the market one way or the other, since adoption of any new technology will inevitably […]

Today begins a new chapter in Forescout’s journey as we have entered into an agreement to be acquired by Advent International for $1.9 billion in cash. Advent will be joined by Crosspoint Capital Partners as co-investor and advisor. Once the transaction is complete, Forescout will be a private company again and better positioned to serve […]

Critical infrastructure organizations reliant on operational technology (OT) for their core business are increasingly concerned that they’re under constant attack. According to figures in the Ransomware Marketplace report from incident response company, Coveware, the average number of days a ransomware incident lasts is now 16.2 days, up from 12.1 days in the third quarter of […]

On January 14, Microsoft has officially killed the lights on Windows 7, a beloved classic amongst Windows releases – only overshadowed by Windows 10 in 2018, when the latter became the most popular desktop operating system in the world – 9 years after the release of 7. Currently, over 440 million devices still run Windows […]

Updates: Join the Forescout Community Discussion on controlling Cisco devices impacted by the CDPwn vulnerabilities. Learn why seeing all layer 2 CDP traffic is crucial (going beyond SPAN), and why instrumenting controls through switching infrastructure is the best way to fully identify devices impacted by CDPwn. Another vendor protocol was laid bare today, with Cisco […]