We Love a Good Defense and Those Who Provide It!

Operational technology (OT) cybersecurity professionals work behind the scenes to ensure we all have the reliable power, water, goods, and services we need. They help communities who don't even know this good work is being done. It can feel a bit like "one-way love," and we thank our customers for the tireless work they do to make modern life possible!

Whether you're tasked with defending the community you love or ensuring that critical infrastructure operates at its best, you can trust Fend to physically block cyberattacks on your most critical systems and make "one-way" the best way to go!

New Case Study: Secure Monitoring of Real-Time Turbine Performance with Data Diodes

Learn how an electric utility that provides electricity to 3 million customers across nine states in the U.S. improved their operational awareness and boosted their cybersecurity with Fend. This customer needed to receive real-time data from a set of power turbines in a secure fashion. However, the turbines sent their real-time data as broadcast UDP which was being blocked by the utility’s firewall. For security reasons, they didn’t want to make a firewall exception for this kind of traffic. With Fend's data diodes, the utility is able to receive operational data from the turbines in real time without compromising their security.

Learn more and get the case study here!

Thieves Use AI to steal $25 Million... Could Access to Your Industrial Control Systems be Next?

This month we saw that AI can be used to coax employees, even those with good cybersecurity training who know to validate a suspect email request, to execute commands issued by malicious actors. In this case, an employee was convinced by a web meeting of AI-generated, "deepfaked" coworkers including the Chief Financial Officer, to wire millions of dollars to a fraudster's account.

Read the full story here.

If criminals can use these tools today to steal money, they can do so impersonate a system administrator, Chief Information Security Officer, or plant manager requesting legitimate credentials be sent to attackers who would harm the world's critical infrastructure.

What can be done? The first practical step is to physically isolate your most critical systems: ones that are too important to trust to anyone who could be deceived. You don't have to live in the dark, however. With Fend, you can get the data needed to operate around the world while making sure those most critical of networks must be accessed in person by trained staff who are supposed to be there.

Learn more at www.fend.tech/industries or call 1-571-970-1382 x3.