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FEATURE: CYBERSECURITY
Taking steps to
mitigate cyber risks
posed to critical
national infrastructure
As cyberattacks are
ever evolving and becoming
more advanced, it’s time for
technology leaders to step
up and ensure they have the
correct measures in place to
maintain a robust cybersecurity
programme for critical national
infrastructure (CNI). We hear
from Kim Legelis, CMO, Nozomi
Networks, who explains
the cyberrisks associated with
CNI and advises on how to
tackle them.
www.intelligentcio.com
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ozomi Networks is an industrial-focused cybersecurity company
founded in 2013. Being industry focused means the company
secures CNI and the operating systems that runs things such
as water, powerplants and manufacturing. These systems are separate
from traditional IT networks. The company was founded to specialise in
carrying out security in the operational technology environment, which
has challenges around identifying the components that are in it.
What is critical national infrastructure and why is there such
a high cyber-risk associated with it?
The key to CNI is that it’s critical, it’s national and it’s infrastructure.
In describing CNI, it is clear to those of us in the industry that it’s an
area of particular concern because the impact of cyberattacks on
CNI could have long-lasting effects on both the safety of citizens and
on national and economic security. It is therefore an area of focus
for industries and companies and of course, governments, which are
putting in place voluntary or mandatory regulations to help improve
security and raise awareness.
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