Critical Infrastructure Attacks: New Rules, New Game

Critical infrastructure lacking proper protection leaves itself open to a greater number of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. Cybercrime is a business: Low-level threat actors root out opportunities to sell to high-level bidders, who have the infrastructure, tools, and know-how to evade malware detection and successfully carry out cyberattacks. Critical infrastructure across the world is not as protected as it could be and should be, and in some cases wasn’t even architected with cyber security as a consideration. If organizations don’t close the gaps, they can expect increasingly ferocious attacks that can result in massive business fallout and potentially actual loss of human life. If you look back at cybercrime two decades ago and compare it to now, you’re looking at two very different worlds. Even a decade ago doesn’t measure up to the cyberthreats that organizations face today. Many cyberattacks — like malware and phishing campaigns — have existed for decades. The problem