Looking Ahead to 2019: Breaches, Regulations and More

This scenario has been creeping closer to reality. The attacks against Ukraine’s power grid in 2015 and 2016 were among the first and most notable examples of how a targeted cyberattack could disrupt critical infrastructure. Those attacks, blamed on a suspected Russian-linked group nicknamed Sandworm, fortunately only resulted in a loss of power and not life. But industrial control systems remain a big concern for national governments. And there’s a chance that even if attackers don’t intend for their attack to have fatal consequences, fatalities result nonetheless. Fingers crossed (see: Power Grid Malware Platform Threatens Industrial Controls).