Automation & Control
Fig. 1. Schneider’s integrated cybersecurity solutions allow users to centralise security, provide robust change management and automate reporting that supports regulatory compliance.
Protecting critical infrastructure
Industries are under constant threat from hacking. Sean Ottewell reports on the emergence of new cybersecurity standards.
Die Industrie ist einer ständigen Bedrohung durch Hacking ausgesetzt. Sean Ottewell berichtet über die Einführung neuer Standards für Internetsicherheit.
Les industries sont sous la menace constante du piratage. Sean Ottewell offre un rapport sur l’émergence de nouvelles normes en matière de cybersécurité.
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n the face of sustained attacks by hackers on infrastructure, industry and government departments over recent years, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. The framework provides a structure that organisations, regulators and customers can use to create, guide, assess or improve comprehensive cybersecurity programmes. The framework is a response to President
Obama’s February 2013 executive order calling for the development of a voluntary, risk-based cybersecurity framework – a set of standards, guidelines and practices to help organisations manage cyber risks. The resulting framework, created through
public-private collaboration, provides a common language to address and manage cyber risk in a cost-effective way based on business needs, without placing additional
regulatory requirements on businesses. “The framework provides a consensus description of what’s needed for a comprehensive cybersecurity programme,” said NIST director Patrick D Gallagher. “It reflects the efforts of a broad range of industries that see the value of and need for improving cybersecurity and lowering risk. It will help companies prove to themselves and their stakeholders that good cybersecurity is good business.” The framework allows organisations
– regardless of size, degree of cyber risk or cybersecurity sophistication – to apply the principles and best practices of risk management to improve the security and resilience of critical infrastructure. Organisations can use the framework to
determine their current level of cybersecurity, set goals for cybersecurity that are in sync with their business environment, and establish a plan for improving or maintaining their
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