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    Strategies to Cyber Protect all those OT Assets: March 23 Webinar with Dragos

    March 17, 2023
    Any industrial, commercial or service firm with operational technology using hardware and software to interact with physical assets is in danger from the bandits lurking in the digital badlands. Power utilities, facilities management, microgrids, etc.
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    The United States is navigating frosty relationships with Russia and China these days, but cyber probes and attacks from criminals there, perhaps state-sponsored and otherwise, has been happening from there and other dark web refuges for a long, long time. The danger is everywhere and touches everything.

    In 2021 alone, the Colonial Pipeline and Los Angeles Department of Water and Power both were targeted by cyber criminals operating overseas. Any industrial, commercial or service company with operational technology using hardware and software to interact with physical assets is in danger from the bad actors in the digital badlands.

    These could operate power utilities, facilities management, microgrids and all manner of interconnected energy assets, as well as most other businesses in the modern day. Cyber protection is crucial, and the best defense may be a good offense—being aggressive in understanding the status and vulnerability of assets and mitigating those risks.

    A Thursday, March 23 EnergyTech webinar with Dragos, “10 Ways Asset Visibility Builds an Effective OT Cybersecurity Foundation," will offer top ways to create a broader strategy for OT assets. The 2 p.m. (eastern time, 1 p.m. CT and 11 a.m. pacific) will feature Dragos experts Elan Alvey and Markus Mueller offering lessons learned from the field on improving asset visibility and protecting your grid –and energy system or factory, etc.—from the cyber crooks out there who either want to rob via ransomware or just watch the world burn.

    The EnergyTech webinar is free and on-demand. You can register here. “10 Ways Asset Visibility Builds an Effective OT Cybersecurity Foundation” is sponsored by Dragos and will offer a Q&A sessions after the presentations by Alvey and Mueller. EnergyTech Senior Editor Rod Walton will moderate the session.

    Join us for key insights for protecting energy and other industrial assets from the bad guys who are smart and motivated to create chaos out of order. 

    About the Author

    EnergyTech Staff

    Rod Walton is senior editor for EnergyTech.com. He has spent 14 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist.

    Walton formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

    He can be reached at [email protected]. 

    EnergyTech is focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids.

    Many large-scale energy users such as Fortune 500 companies, and mission-critical users such as military bases, universities, healthcare facilities, public safety and data centers, shifting their energy priorities to reach net-zero carbon goals within the coming decades. These include plans for renewable energy power purchase agreements, but also on-site resiliency projects such as microgrids, combined heat and power, rooftop solar, energy storage, digitalization and building efficiency upgrades.