Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Industrial cybersecurity has always been and remains a moving target, and this ARC Strategy Report, a compendium of selected ARC cybersecurity-related reports published since 2013, shares many of our key industrial and other cybersecurity-related learnings.

Cisco unveiled a radical simplification in the way customers experience Cisco Security's portfolio and address complexity. Cisco is now offering customers an integrated cloud-native security platform, Cisco SecureX.

The Open Manufacturing Platform (OMP) has expanded, with new steering committee members and new working groups established.  OMP is an alliance founded in 2019 to help manufacturing companies accelerate innovation at scale through cross-industry collaboration, knowledge and data sharing as well as access to new technologies.

The 50th World Economic Forum, themed  Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World, was held from 21-24 January in Davos, Switzerland. 

As we learned this week at the 24th annual ARC Industry Forum, despite some initial false starts, questionable implementations, and organizational barriers to digital transformation, digital transformation is now beginning to deliver tangible business benefits in plants, factories, infrastructure, and municipalities around the world.

Reducing the cybersecurity risk to one of the most vulnerable aspects of commerce — global cyber supply chains — is the goal of a new publication by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Claroty announced the integration of its Continuous Threat Detection (CTD) solution with Siemens Mobility Data Capture Unit (DCU) Increases Cybersecurity for OT and IT Networks.

PAS Global LLC, the OT Integrity company, announced new product releases of Cyber Integrity and PlantState Integrity and introduced a new solution called Decision Integrity.

Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., announced its intent to acquire the business of privately held Waterline Data, Inc.

A few months after the release of Thales’ Cyberthreat Handbook, detailing the major groups of hackers and identifying the power generation industry as one of the most at risk, Thales and GE Steam Power are establishing a collaboration to deliver a suite of power plant cybersecurity solutions to power plant operators.