Industrial Cybersecurity

Performing an initial risk assessment on discovered ICS assets

"Setting the stage for an effective security program."

When first entering the security program development process, we should be mostly concerned with uncovering architectural or fundamental flaws in the system design. These are issues found in technical area 1 - ICS Network Architecture - of the policy discussion activities. By addressing these fundamental issues first, the path is cleared to unveil more nuanced risk.

A gap analysis, involving a network architecture drawing review can function as a first-pass, initial risk assessment. It can uncover potential high-impact or low-hanging fruit mitigation efforts as well as reveal any glaring system-level vulnerabilities and/or ...