DURHAM, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The publishers of Industrial Safety and Security Source (ISSSource.com) launched a new publicly available incident database called ICS STRIVE (ICSSTRIVE.com) to identify and define cyber incidents that have occurred in industrial environments, globally.
ICS STRIVE stands for Industrial Control System Security, Threats, Regulations, Incidents, Vulnerabilities provided by Experts.
With the latest Colonial Pipeline attack, it is no secret industrial cyber incidents continue to occur weekly across the manufacturing automation industry, however identifying them and then understanding the relevance to common industrial operations has been difficult to interpret.
“This year started off at breakneck speed with incidents occurring on a very regular basis. Our database launched with over 350 incidents, including the most recent Colonial Pipeline incident,” said Gregory Hale, editor and founder of ISSSource.com. “With ICS STRIVE users will be able to search for incidents related to industry sectors, countries, companies, types of attacks like malware or ransomware, and attack groups.”
The database helps operators and asset owners understand the magnitude of what the industry is facing. When you see or hear about incidents in multiple locations, it is hard to understand the context of the level of attacks occurring across the industry. ICS STRIVE informs the industry to the specific details of industrial automation incidents, while highlighting trends, connections, and relevance.
“Obtaining cybersecurity investment from management can sometimes be tough. Sometimes executive management can dismiss individual incidents thinking, this has happened there, but it has not happened to us and it hasn’t happened in this industry,” said John Cusimano, vice president of industrial cybersecurity at aeSolutions. “When you can show information about multiple incidents that have happened in very similar companies in the same industry, it can help change the impression that executives may have.”
While ICS STRIVE editors will post daily incidents as we learn them, there is also a way where readers can get involved and provide information on incidents. A reader can click on the ‘Submit an Incident’ button at the top of the home page. Submissions will be reviewed, fact-checked, and published by an ICS STRIVE editor.
Visit ICSStrive.com to search or submit industrial cyber incidents.
ISSSource.com, which launched in April 2010, is a web-based publication focused on providing news, features, webcasts, podcasts and trend stories focused on Safety and Physical and Cyber Security in the industrial manufacturing sector.