Upskill ICS/OT Cybersecurity in an IT World with Splunk’s BOTS Virtual Challenge
Summary: Dragos and Splunk released a Boss of the SOC (BOTS) virtual challenge titled "1UP Your ICS/OT Cybersecurity Team," a blue-team capture-the-flag in which participants use Splunk's BOTS platform to answer questions about incidents in a fictitious environment. The scenario covers control logic modifications, maintaining persistence inside networks, and command and control (C2), and the first 50 U.S.-based players to score 6,000 or more in Scenario 1 receive a custom t-shirt.
Bottom line: The article cites the Ponemon report "2021 State of Industrial Cybersecurity" finding that only 21% of surveyed companies said they achieved ICS/OT cybersecurity maturity, naming lack of skills and training as a primary contributing factor - and it argues that folding OT under a general IT umbrella does not address the difference between corporate data safety and OT risks like human safety, loss of physical production, and facility shutdowns.
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