Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Evolving Cyber Threats

The Evolving Threat Landscape

Critical infrastructure—including power grids, water treatment facilities, transportation systems, and healthcare—faces increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. State-sponsored actors, criminal organizations, and hacktivists continue to develop new techniques to target these essential services.

Recent Attack Trends

Recent years have seen several concerning trends in critical infrastructure attacks:

Supply Chain Compromises

Attackers are targeting the supply chain to gain access to critical systems, as seen in incidents like the SolarWinds breach which affected numerous government agencies and critical infrastructure operators.

Ransomware Against Essential Services

Ransomware attacks have increasingly targeted critical services, with the Colonial Pipeline incident demonstrating how digital attacks can have physical consequences, disrupting fuel supplies across the eastern United States.

Protection Strategies

Protecting critical infrastructure requires a comprehensive approach:

Hardware-Based Isolation

Terafence's physical isolation technology creates an impassable barrier between critical operational networks and potentially vulnerable IT systems or external connections, allowing controlled data flow while preventing command infiltration.

// bash scripting in linux
# Start the service
sudo systemctl start ui-app.service

# Stop the service
sudo systemctl stop ui-app.service

# Restart the service
sudo systemctl restart ui-app.service

# Check the status of the service
sudo systemctl status ui-app.service

# Enable the service to start on boot
sudo systemctl enable ui-app.service

# Disable the service from starting on boot
sudo systemctl disable ui-app.service

# View logs for troubleshooting in real-time
sudo journalctl -u ui-app.service -f