In 2014, an unnamed German Steel Mill suffered a sophisticated cyberattack that targeted the industrial control systems of a blast furnace, causing the furnace to shut down improperly. This unstable and improper shutdown caused “massive damage”...
Artificial intelligence (AI) applications are increasingly being integrated into our everyday lives. Smart thermostats use AI to learn our schedules and adjust temperatures, AI applications in self-driving cars enable them to navigate and respond...
Ensuring the safety of their systems is a top priority for organizations operating within Industry 4.0. Anything from heavy-duty machinery in a smart factory to environmental sensors in an energy plant—all are potentially dangerous if they don’t...
There is perhaps no cyberattack more infamous or dangerous than the 2009 Stuxnet attack. It was the first ever weaponized cyberattack.
The Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved dramatically since its conception, and our world alongside it. The advancement of the IoT—including its subset the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)—has given way to the latest industrial revolution:...
While the Internet of Things may have seemed like a pipe dream of the future just a few years ago, today it’s hard to classify it as anything less than a growing success. In fact, some analysts predict that the IoT is growing so fast, it could...
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The Internet of Things garnered plenty of headlines in 2018, but not necessarily for the best reasons. While the rapidly growing industry successfully avoided the type of black eye that the Dyn DDoS attack left back in 2016, IoT devices are still...
There’s no doubt 2018 was an important year in cybersecurity, as a number of national stories and unfortunate attacks lifted the public’s awareness of the issues at hand like never before.
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CoreGuard® is a sentry processor that acts like a bodyguard by checking every instruction sent to an embedded system’s host processor for malicious code—stopping attacks before any damage can be done.