Ask the ISACs: How Can Small and Medium Businesses Prepare for a Cyber Attack in an OT Environment?

Cybersecurity risks – especially ransomware - for small and medium businesses (SMBs) are continually increasing, with adversaries expanding their focus beyond large organizations, as enterprise organizations are better equipped to increase their budget and strengthen defenses year over year. SMBs can be an easier target for cyber criminals, and these attacks can also have a big impact on large organizations who might rely on SMBs in their supply chain, for example. Meanwhile, these very same SMBs struggle to secure the resources to meet these growing risks.

Dragos OT-CERT was created with these organizations in mind. OT-CERT is an Operational Technology – Cyber Emergency Readiness Team dedicated to addressing the OT resource gap that exists in industrial infrastructure. Designed to support asset owners and operators of OT environments, Dragos OT-CERT provides free cybersecurity resources for the Industrial Control System (ICS) /OT community, and forms partnerships to raise the collective awareness across all sectors. With shared values and a common mission to protect and support critical industries, together we help resource-constrained organizations within the ICS/OT community protect themselves against the escalating cyber threat landscape.