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Cybersecurity risk is at a critical
level, according to SANS survey
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ICS Cybersecurity Survey. A total of 62%
of those surveyed believe people are the
greatest risk to cybersecurity compromise,
trailed by technology (22%) and processes
and procedures (14%).
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Doug Wylie, Director of SANS Industrials &
Infrastructure Business Portfolio.
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A total of 348 security professionals
worldwide, representing IT, OT and
hybrid IT-OT domains provided their
thoughts in the SANS 2019 State of O7/
“The obvious concern about the risk that
people represent – whether they are
malicious insiders, careless employees or
nation-state bad actors – is consistent
across industries,” said Barbara Filkins, SANS
Senior Analyst. “We were a little surprised at
the lower-ranking concern around process,
given that there is significant complexity
involved in ICS design, implementation and
More than half of respondents also see the
cyber risks to their safe and reliable operations
as high or higher than in past years.
eople remain the greatest threat
to industrial control systems (ICS)
and associated networks, according
to a new SANS survey focused on better
understanding cybersecurity risks to
operational technology (OT) systems.
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