Report: Nearly 70% of industrial organizations have experienced a cyberattack in the past year 

In an excerpt from the report, authors Michael M. Amiri and Michela Menting write: “Operational Technology (OT) teams once felt fortified against cyberattacks in industrial operations, given their air-gapped systems, legacy assets, proprietary technologies, fragmented end markets, etc. However, the narrative has greatly changed within the last several years; considering the many news headlines reporting on various OT attacks on industrial firms. Take the EKANS ransomware attack on Honda in 2020 as an example, forcing multiple factory shutdowns worldwide. Or look at the 2022 satellite-born attack disrupting the operations of 5,800 wind turbines in Germany. Other successful attacks include the Industroyer2 malware attack on electrical substations used by Ukrainian energy companies and the notorious Colonial Pipeline shutdown in 2021. What these recent attacks tell us is that the unabated expansion of cyberthreats has found ways to intrude into every corner of modern organizations, and industrial operations are no exception.”