ICYMI
“From a cyber defender standpoint, we don’t care; it could be Martians, it could be Iranians, it could be Americans,” Sean Tufts says. “We need to be better, and if someone’s proving they have these capabilities, then we need to take that warning.”
The attack on a small UK energy generator caused no blackout and threatened no national systems, highlighting how adversaries can target critical infrastructure’s vast, poorly defended “long tail," and still create disruption, fear, and headlines.
Check out my latest CSO piece for more details.
Many thanks to Josh Picolet of Team Cymru, Phil Tonkin from Dragos, and Sean Tufts of Claroty for their insight.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/4214535/critical-infrastructures-long-undefended-tail-exposed-by-uk-energy-attack.html