Physical-Cyber Convergence

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Focus on Convergence

With OT, IT, and Physical Attacks, Underfunded Water Utilities Contend with Leaky Defenses

Attackers seeking money, attention, or destruction have taken aim at water utilities, seeking to cause major impacts on a minor budget through physical, cyber, or converged means.

Strengthening Infrastructure Security: Convergence in Utilities Industry

The number of physical security incidents against U.S. electricity infrastructure increased as much as 70 percent in 2022 compared to prior years, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

Editor’s Note: ‘Uncertainty is Wisdom in Motion’

Uncertainty can be a counterintuitive superpower that can be fostered and encouraged.

Mass Emergency Planning Exercise Tests Resilience to Coordinated Converged Attacks

The 2023 GridEx scenarios tested electric utilities’ and government agencies’ ability to respond and recover from multi-level, converged attacks.

5 Critical Controls for Industrial System Cybersecurity

Smaller organizations and utilities can easily feel overwhelmed and under-resourced when facing cybersecurity threats. These five controls provide a starting point.

Emerging Technology Highlights New Converged Risks and Asymmetric Threats

The ubiquity of technology companies in daily life today puts them in the security spotlight, with increasing media attention, political scrutiny, and complex, overlapping threats.

Fast Facts: What is Security Convergence?

Security convergence traditionally means closing the gap between previously separate security functions—usually cybersecurity and site security.