Cloud Security Alliance Advocates Zero Trust For Critical Infrastructure
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, October 30th, 2024
Critical infrastructure, which historically have been isolated and unconnected from other networks, are becoming increasingly interconnected due to the ubiquity of the internet and the growth of the cloud and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), putting them more solidly in the crosshairs of cybercriminals as targets for everything from financial gain to cyberespionage to operational disruptions.
The ongoing convergence of IT and operational technology (OT) is putting pressure to modernize cyber-protections for a critical infrastructure (CI) security environment that is seen as a decade or more old. In June, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas outlined priorities for shoring up critical infrastructure and resiliency, writing in a memo that 'the increasing interconnectivity of critical infrastructure systems and reliance upon global technologies and supply chains make these systems susceptible to a myriad of threats.'