The National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) of Saudi Arabia has released a set of Operational Technology Cybersecurity Controls (OTCC-1:2022) as part of its efforts to regulate and safeguard the country’s cyberspace. This initiative is aligned with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, which emphasizes the importance of cybersecurity.
The National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) of Saudi Arabia has released a set of Operational Technology Cybersecurity Controls (OTCC-1:2022) as part of its efforts to regulate and safeguard the country’s cyberspace. This initiative is aligned with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, which emphasizes the importance of cybersecurity.
ATS is delighted to announce a strategic partnership with GCC Technical Services Co. aimed at providing industry-leading services in the OT/ICS cybersecurity and system integration domains.
The emergence of intelligent devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) is altering industrial control system (ICS) networks, enhancing usability, efficiency, and productivity in ICS environments while also having a substantial impact on ICS security.
What is an ICS (Industrial Control System)?
Industrial control systems (ICS) are essential components
A strong base for OT/ICS security needs real-time access of the entire hardware, software and firmware in the network, customer’s data, active accounts information, patches status, susceptibilities, network system configurations, windows updates, implanted system backplanes, the status of diverse security components such as application firewalls, whitelisting, antivirus,
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Operational technology (OT) systems, such as industrial control systems and SCADA, were overlooked by cyberpunks in the past. Robbing OT system data was challenging as it was not connected to external networks.
But that’s no longer the point.
Over the last decade, cyber-attacks on Operational Technology have increased in frequency and scale. Cyber attackers and online criminal squads have used cyberterrorism to disrupt corporations and critical infrastructure globally. Today, they are becoming even more fierce and are utilizing their resources to target Operations Technology (OT) and Industrial Control System (ICS) networks to harm humans.
With the massive increase of cyber crimes in the OT space, the cabinets of UAE and other selected countries in the Middle East region (Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar among others) are concerned about securing the cyber infrastructure and protecting the data from cyber criminals.
Middle East governments are acutely aware of the new threat landscape of digitization.
In comparison to the IT sector, cybersecurity for operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) is considerably weak. The significant reason for this is that the OT systems were not designed for a digitalized world where systems are connected via internet.
Yet the advancement towards Industrial IoT (IIoT) demands secure OT systems and protection for manufacturing processes