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SANS 2019 State of OT/ICS Cybersecurity Survey

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SANS 2019 State of OT/ICS Cybersecurity Survey (PDF, 3.99MB)Published: 11 Jun, 2019
Created by
Barbara Filkins

In this survey, SANS experts Doug Wylie and Barb Filkins, with advisor and SANS instructor Jason Dely, examine the current state of known and perceived cybersecurity risks, threats and potential impacts to industrial and automation control systems that are applied within the Operational Technology (OT) domain. The survey explores how adeptly we are safeguarding operations and protecting human and company capital from a range of technical and non-technical cybersecurity risks that stem from threats that include malicious and unintentional insiders and outsiders.

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Barbara Filkins

Barbara Filkins, SANS Research Director, holds several SANS certifications, including the GSEC, GCIH, GCPM, GLEG and GICSP, the CISSP, and an MS in information security management from the SANS Technology Institute.

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