The red lines once thought to be unapproachable by cyber adversaries have dimmed significantly in industrial control systems (ICS) over the past year. While not yet commonplace, these disruptive and destructive attacks are no longer the thing of fiction. Even if we abandon the “cyber war” scenario, ICS attacks may become attractive to the new wave of ransom-driven cybercrime actors or shift towards the operational technology (OT) networks and systems that support the world’s most critical physical and virtual infrastructure.
