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ICS as a cloud service is coming: Will the benefits outweigh the risks?

September 3, 2019

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Industrial control system (ICS) equipment benefits from security by obscurity and complexity. The protocols are so unique and require so much effort to master that nobody but a motivated nation-state is going to spend the time and money figuring out how to attack them.

Plug these systems into a modern IT cloud infrastructure and all of a sudden the gamut of “traditional” attacks can now affect ICS/operational technology (OT) systems, including taking advantage of wormable, unpatched IT vulnerabilities.

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