{"id":174223,"date":"2023-10-14T22:22:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T03:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/cybersecurity-builds-trust-in-critical-infrastructure"},"modified":"2023-10-14T22:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T03:22:47","slug":"cybersecurity-builds-trust-in-critical-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/cybersecurity-builds-trust-in-critical-infrastructure","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity Builds Trust in Critical Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cybersecurity-builds-trust-in-critical-infrastructure2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where reliability matters, as it does in energy, resilience against cyberattacks enhances a company\u2019s reputation. Disruptions damage that reputation.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In 2021, a ransomware attack shut down Colonial Pipeline operations for six days. Gas shortages in the eastern US, economic turmoil, and eye-catching headlines resulted. Interest in cybersecurity for critical infrastructure intensified \u2014 and many leaders seemed to learn the wrong lesson.<\/p>\n<p>Energy sector leaders often take cyber vulnerabilities seriously only after a significant breach. Experiencing a loss (or watching someone else\u2019s) makes companies tighten cybersecurity to avoid similar losses. This pattern emphasizes the loss-avoidance aspects of cybersecurity. Yet thinking of cybersecurity solely as loss avoidance misses a key value generator cybersecurity provides: trust.<\/p>\n<p>Companies that get cybersecurity right earn trust. That trust matters in two ways: It supports brand or company reputation, and it allows for forward innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where reliability matters, as it does in energy, resilience against cyberattacks enhances a company\u2019s reputation. Disruptions damage that reputation. In 2021, a ransomware attack shut down Colonial Pipeline operations for six days. Gas shortages in the eastern US, economic turmoil, and eye-catching headlines resulted. Interest in cybersecurity for critical infrastructure intensified \u2014 and many leaders [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,39,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-economics","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}