The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), a part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has issued a guidance on how the manufacturing and industrial sectors can respond to cyber incidents and recover operations.
“Manufacturing organizations rely on OT to monitor and control physical processes that produce goods for public consumption. These same systems are facing an increasing number of cyberattacks, presenting a real threat to safety and production, and economic impact to a manufacturing organization. Though defense-in-depth security architecture helps to mitigate cyber risks, it cannot guarantee elimination of all cyber risks; therefore, manufacturing organizations should also have a plan to recover and restore operations should a cyber incident impact operations,” the NCCoE wrote.
Last week, US cybersecurity and intelligence agencies released the separate guides to help organizations strengthen their defenses against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, the supply chain compromise, phishing and other cyber threats.