Cyber security for critical infrastructure: Are IT and OT managers ready to tackle the issue?

From the very beginning, critical infrastructure networks were designed solely for control purposes and to provide operators with information. Cyber security was not even a distant consideration, as cyber attacks were practically unheard of.

The beginning of the 21^stcentury brought about a newfound awareness of the potential damage that cyber attacks can cause. Still, cyber security was viewed primarily in terms of its traditional roots – as an IT-type risk – and was treated as such in terms of threat mitigation.

The traditional doctrine for securing networking devices focuses on two basic elements:

The first is an anti-virus, which is simply a software running on a PC. The second is the firewall.
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