[via SecurityWeek.com]

The Internet of Things (IoT) is integrating the physical world and computer-based systems more and more through a vast network of electronics, software, sensors, actuators and connectivity. According to Statista, the IoT juggernaut is growing nearly 20-percent annually and on track to hit $8.9 trillion by 2020. All the while, a quarter of all IoT remains devoted to industrial settings — the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Read More

via CDO Trends

• Emerging ‘Unique Human Identities’ Under Attack
• Government Social Media Becomes Regulated as Critical Infrastructure
• Trade Wars Trigger Commercial Espionage
• Supply Chain Meets Blockchain
• Enterprises Transfer Trust and Risk…to Google and Facebook?

Read More: https://www.cdotrends.com/story/14088/five-ways-2019-can-be-very-different-cybersecurity

via The Cipher Brief

• Terrorism experts have expressed serious concern over how an uncoordinated withdrawal of troops could create fertile ground for terrorist organizations like ISIS and Al Qaeda to regroup. 
• Others are concerned about the opportunities it creates for the government of Bashar al-Assad as well as Russia and Iran, key players in the region. 

“The president has made a decision to withdraw, and withdrawing from Syria, in the face of ISIS still remaining there, is similar to the U.S. withdrawing from Afghanistan after the Soviet war,” says Dr. Kimberly Kagan, founder of the Institute for the Study of War, a non-partisan, non-profit public policy research organization.   “This is exactly how we got to 9/11, and the president has set us on a course to be out of Syria as ISIS revives its organization and its military capabilities.” Read More

Cyber threats to buildings/data centers include data issues: compromise, exfiltration and denial-of-service. Control system cyber threats to data centers have focused on the Internet-connected building control systems. However, there are other control system cyber threats to data centers that have not been addressed and have actually caused data center damage.

Read more, https://www.realcomm.com/advisory/904/1/control-system-cybersecurity-and-what-it-means-to-buildings.

via dotmed.com, December 13, 2018

By Doug Concepcion Read More