The Energy Sector Hacker Report: Profiling the Hacker Groups by James Scott,Drew Spaniel

By James Scott,Drew Spaniel

between our Nation's severe infrastructures, the strength area is a first-rate goal for exploitation through country kingdom and mercenary APTs, hacktivists, cyber jihadists and different hacker groups. even supposing the nation's socioeconomic survival relies on the power quarter to bring strength to the houses and companies that help existence, company operations, and demanding platforms, it was once now not outfitted upon a starting place of safeguard and cyber-resiliency, making it hugely susceptible to assault. To increase actually achievable defenses, conversations approximately power quarter resiliency needs to concentration extra on information about actors, malware and evolving assault vectors.

In this e-book, the Institute for severe Infrastructure know-how deals a close research of the increasing possibility panorama in the strength quarter in addition to profiles at the such a lot famous actors concentrating on our Nation's strength grid.

Specifically, the document discusses:

-The Incidents that experience formed power quarter Discussions 
-A breakdown of the most important elements of our power Grid 
-The increasing danger panorama together with IT/OT Convergence, software program & Apps, Engineering Workstations, PLCs, and clever Grid and Cloud Technologies, 
-The Threats to the power quarter together with simple assault Chains, Botnets, Insider Threats, Spear Phishing, 0 Days, and Ransomware 
-The major power quarter hazard Actors together with Hacktivists, Lone-Wolf Activists, Cyberterrorists, Cybercriminals, Hail-Mary danger Actors and country nation Threats

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