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Protecting Oil and Gas Industry Infrastructure: Strategies for Resilience

SecureWorld News

To ensure energy security and economic stability, protecting the infrastructure is essential. Digital transformation: The integration of IoT, SCADA systems, and advanced analytics has increased operational efficiency but also expanded the attack surface. It requires continuous verification, even for internal users.

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MY TAKE: The role of semiconductors in bringing the ‘Internet of Everything’ into full fruition

The Last Watchdog

Our reliance on artificially intelligent software is deepening, signaling an era, just ahead, of great leaps forward for humankind. For instance, very visibly over the past decade, Internet of Things ( IoT ) computing devices and sensors have become embedded everywhere. Energy at the edges.

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STEPS FORWARD: Math geniuses strive to make a pivotal advance — by obfuscating software code

The Last Watchdog

Our top math geniuses point to iO as a cornerstone needed to unleash the full potential of artificially intelligent (AI) programs running across highly complex and dynamic cloud platforms, soon to be powered by quantum computers. The math community refers to this bottleneck as “indistinguishability obfuscation,” or iO.

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Cybersecurity threats: what awaits us in 2023?

SecureList

The economic downturn (caused by energy prices, inflation, sanctions, etc.) Businesses most at risk are aerospace and defense contractors, as well as critical infrastructure operators (utilities such as water, electricity, and Internet, but also hospitals and operators of large cyber-physical systems such as dams). IoT Vulnerabilities.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2025

SecureList

In general, we’ve observed hacktivists in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict become more skilled and more focused on attacking large organizations such as government, manufacturing and energy entities. However, one especially notable supply chain attack in 2024 was the XZ Utils backdoor, which we covered in a three-part blog post.

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Forescout Platform: NAC Product Review

eSecurity Planet

IoT (printers, IP phones, security cameras, etc.) Although the features beyond network access control and services can be valuable, they are beyond the scope of this review and will not be covered further here. Agents Forescout Platform is an agentless solution. Network infrastructure (switches, routers, wireless access points, etc.)

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Sustainability in EPC Projects: The Function of Smart Technology and Devices

SecureWorld News

As the construction and industrial sectors face increasing pressure to reduce their environmental impact, these developments are changing the way EPC projects are planned, executed, and maintained, from reducing waste to maximizing energy efficiency and supporting green building projects.