Secure Operations Technology

Secure Operations TechnologyIT SEC protects the information. SEC OT protects physical, industrial operations from information, more specifically from attacks embedded in information. When the consequences of compromise are unacceptable unscheduled downtime, impaired product quality and damaged equipment software based IT SEC defences are not enough. Secure Operations Technology (SEC OT) is a perspective, a methodology, and a set of best practices used at secure industrial sites.

IT-SEC protects the information. SEC-OT protects physical, industrial operations from information, more specifically from attacks embedded in information. When the consequences of compromise are unacceptable Ð unscheduled downtime, impaired product quality and damaged equipment Ð software-based IT-SEC defences are not enough. Secure Operations Technology (SEC-OT) is a perspective, a methodology, and a set of best practices used at secure industrial sites. SEC-OT demands cyber-physical protections - because all software can be compromised. SEC-OT strictly controls the flow of information Ð because all information can encode attacks. SEC-OT uses a wide range of attack capabilities to determine the strength of security postures - because nothing is secure. This book documents the Secure Operations Technology approach, including physical offline and online protections against cyber attacks and a set of twenty standard cyber-attack patterns to use in risk assessments.