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In Cyber Security, your Vendors may represent your Greatest Vulnerability

Great article in Forbes with solid insights from industry veteran Joe Weiss on the cyber risks to the US electrical grid and the threats posed by adversarial suppliers of critical infrastructure, in particular, China...  In addition to direct attacks, adversaries are actively seeking to compromise supply chains (sometimes described as 3rd party risk) in their efforts to gain access to enterprise systems, including critical infrastructure.  The new COLD WAR is Digital...

Dragos, one of our Allegis portfolio companies that began life at cyber security foundry DataTribe (our partner) is considered by many industry veterans to be the leading cyber defense firm securing critical infrastructure from cyber attack.  Founded by ICS Security veterans from the National Security Agency, the Dragos team brings first person perspective and experience in countering ICS security attacks.

 “Sometimes I feel I’m living in a parallel universe,” Weiss told me during one of many conversations we have had about the integrity of the grid and its vulnerability to electronic triggers buried in bulk power equipment, nearly all of it sourced from China.

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cybersecurity, icssecurity, electricalgridsecurity, dragos, allegiscyber, datatribe