With the rise in geopolitical rivalries and disputes, the Middle East faces nation-state-sponsored cyber attacks on infrastructures such as utilities, oil and gas, and transport hubs. Meanwhile, the advancement to cloud services and digital marketing growth is fuelling a terrifying rise in consumer data theft. Critical infrastructure must segregate and defend networks while governments must bring forward new GDPR-style data security.
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Cyber security has become a critical problem in the Middle East region and the UAE. The executives of these regions have been raising their spending on cyber security services/products/solutions to decrease security problems (e.g., Aerospace & Defense, Retail, and BFSI) and defend data from cyberpunks.
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
ATS is pleased to share that our webinar in partnership with Cisco at our ATS Coffee Break Sessions Series was a huge success. The plan of the webinar included the essential need for operational technology cybersecurity.
ICS/OT cybersecurity is the central topic of CISCO’s new eBook, “OT Cyber Security.”
Operational Technology (OT) is hardware and software that detects or produces changes by directly monitoring and controlling physical devices, processes, and events. It incorporates a comprehensive range of programmable systems or devices interacting with the physical environment.
ATS, one of the most trusted ICS / OT technology solution providers in the Middle East region, today announced that it has achieved Operational Technology (OT) Specialization as part of the Fortinet Engage Partner Program.