Submission + - SPAM: The Question About the Pipeline Shutdown that No One is Asking 1
Nicola Hahn writes: The real story isn't that part of the country is temporarily suffering gas shortages, it's that a company which generates billions of dollars in revenue somehow lacks the basic ability to fend off a mundane threat like ransomware. With the resources that they had at their disposal, how pray tell did the executives manage to screw things up so badly?
"Ransomware is a pervasive threat. Any chief information officer worth their salt will have the foresight to deploy the controls necessary to sufficiently raise the cost of attacks as well as limit the damage that they incur—particularly when it comes to protecting the American infrastructure. Entire frameworks have been designed for managing cybersecurity. They’ve been around for years. There is even guidance aimed squarely at the energy sector describing how to implement them. The security programs produced by these frameworks almost always involve essential activities like threat modeling and risk assessment, as well as performing table top exercises, penetration testing, and disaster recovery dry runs. It’s all about managing risk and forging a solid incident response playbook."
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"Ransomware is a pervasive threat. Any chief information officer worth their salt will have the foresight to deploy the controls necessary to sufficiently raise the cost of attacks as well as limit the damage that they incur—particularly when it comes to protecting the American infrastructure. Entire frameworks have been designed for managing cybersecurity. They’ve been around for years. There is even guidance aimed squarely at the energy sector describing how to implement them. The security programs produced by these frameworks almost always involve essential activities like threat modeling and risk assessment, as well as performing table top exercises, penetration testing, and disaster recovery dry runs. It’s all about managing risk and forging a solid incident response playbook."
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