Assessing OT Cybersecurity Maturity with the SANS ICS 5 Critical Controls
Summary: The SANS ICS 5 Critical Controls for ICS cybersecurity were developed by Robert M. Lee, SANS instructor and Dragos CEO and co-founder, and Tim Conway, SANS instructor, drawing on analysis of compromises and cyber attacks on industrial companies worldwide. The controls are outcome-focused and intelligence-driven, selected based on real-world incidents, and are meant to be tailored to an organization's specific environment and risk tolerance.
What you should know: The framework was built from documented attacks on industrial companies, not hypotheticals, so the gaps it surfaces are the same ones adversaries have already used against physical processes. A maturity assessment against these five controls tells you where your ICS program stands before an incident does.
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