IT, OT, and CNI: a hidden threat?

Any advanced economy relies on the smooth running of its infrastucture.

And whether it’s transport, logistics, healthcare, the banking system, manufacturing – even food production – industrial and operational systems are what keeps it all running.

Those systems are now being targeted by malicious actors. Both state-sponsored and criminal groups are looking closely at operational technology and industrial systems.

Recent research suggests that many, if not most, of the groups attacking critical national infrastructure are linked to national intelligence agencies. And that raises some difficult questions about how both businesses, and their governments, should respond.

Our guest is Mark Magpie Graham, technical director for threat intelligence at Dragos, who carried out the research.