Tag Archives: Critical Infrastructure

La Cybersécurité, c’est (aussi) du sport!

Aujourd’hui, la cybersécurité n’est plus seulement un problème pour les gouvernements ou les entreprises de technologie : elle touche aussi les ligues de sport professionnel des États-Unis. Malheureusement, les efforts des ligues visant à protéger l’intégrité des compétitions de ces menaces ont été relativement lents à se mettre en branle. Plutôt que d’établir des normes …

The sport of cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is no longer just a problem for governments or tech firms — it has now reached U.S. professional sports leagues. Unfortunately, the leagues’ efforts to safeguard the integrity of their sporting competition from these threats have been relatively slow to develop. Rather than formulate leaguewide cybersecurity standards, U.S. leagues appear to largely defer to …

Réponse aux incidents dans le secteur financier équatorien

Le secteur financier est un composant essentiel de l’infrastructure critique et économique d’un pays. C’est aussi un secteur souvent ciblé par les cyberattaques, et ce, avec succès. Les pays développés mettent beaucoup de ressources pour prévenir et contrecarrer ces attaques, mais cela est moins le cas pour les pays en voie de développement, car ces …

Military CyberSec Logistics,Playing to Win

Power Projection in the Digital Age: The Only Winning Move is to Play General Darren W. McDew, USAF, is the Commander of U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), the Command responsible for the transportation for the US Department of Defence. He provides an interesting insight into the importance of cybersecurity to the capabilities of the modern military. Information …

Adrian Taylor – Detecting anomalies on the automotive control bus with machine learning

Presented at the SERENE-RISC Workshop, 2017 October.  Detecting anomalies on the automotive control bus with machine learning. Cars are vulnerable to hacking. While automotive cyber attacks are not yet a widespread threat, learning how to detect them will be an important part of future countermeasures. Attacks must be crafted for specific models, so attack detectors must …

Impact of Cyber Attacks on Data Integrity in Transient Stability Control

The development of intelligent energy management or smart grid systems are quite weak advanced however the critical nature of this infrastructure means that the reliability and security of the connected components are concerning. Maintaining energy stability across variations in generation and demand depends on the ability of the synchronous generators in the power system to …

NISTIR 8183 – Cybersecurity Framework Manufacturing Profile

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a Cybersecurity risk reduction framework for businesses in the manufacturing sector.  The document outlines a general target profile for manufacturers around to identify risks within their business more efficiently than customizing from a general set of guidelines.   If you are in any manner concerned with …

Critical Infrastructure Threat Landscape: Understanding and Reacting

    Francesca Bosco – UNICRI, Presented at the 2016 Spring SERENE-RISC Workshop. Advances in the field of global technology have transformed the way in which societies function, affecting governments, businesses, and individuals alike, evoking a wide array of societal benefits, while also subjecting populations to varying degrees of cyber risk. Critical infrastructure serves as …