{"id":204,"date":"2024-06-04T11:31:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T22:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/?p=204"},"modified":"2024-06-04T11:31:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T22:31:26","slug":"security-of-ot-scada-in-businesses-or-the-lack-there-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/2024\/06\/04\/security-of-ot-scada-in-businesses-or-the-lack-there-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Security of OT \/ SCADA in businesses or the lack there of"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many businesses run some form of OT (Operational Technology) \/ SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), especially if they are in the manufacturing or food industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This could be something simple like controlling the speed of a conveyor belt or something much more complex like managing an entire water distribution plant or a waste management plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many times, SecureSphere (NZ) has seen OT \/ SCADA systems connected directly to the Internet with Non-Existent security or Very Little in the way of security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of these OT \/ SCADA systems have no built-in security (ie: username \/ password at a minimum).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With attackers looking for easy wins, unsecured OT \/ SCADA systems are ripe for abuse and in many cases can cause either severe damage to the plant and endanger lives and\/or other assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SecureSphere has many years of experience in securing OT \/ SCADA from single devices up to entire plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/contact-us\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"62\">Contact us<\/a> today to discuss how we can help secure your OT \/ SCADA systems before they are compromised by attackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many businesses run some form of OT (Operational Technology) \/ SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), especially if they are in the manufacturing or food<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,42,48,43],"tags":[16,17,45,47,46],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity-awareness","category-ot-security","category-scada","category-scada-security","tag-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurityawareness","tag-otsecurity","tag-scada","tag-scadasecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securesphere.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}