{"id":22150,"date":"2016-02-15T20:47:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T04:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/82-percent-of-energy-sector-it-pros-say-a-cyber-attack-could-cause-physical-damage"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:10:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:10:59","slug":"82-percent-of-energy-sector-it-pros-say-a-cyber-attack-could-cause-physical-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/82-percent-of-energy-sector-it-pros-say-a-cyber-attack-could-cause-physical-damage","title":{"rendered":"82 Percent of Energy Sector IT Pros Say a Cyber Attack Could Cause Physical Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/82-percent-of-energy-sector-it-pros-say-a-cyber-attack-could-cause-physical-damage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>82% of Energy Industry (power grids, nuclear, solar, gas, etc.) say that a Cyber Attack Could Cause Physical Damage \u2014 and they didn\u2019t highlight those on some sort of life support or machine to help patients, etc. to live.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>According to the results of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripwire.com\/company\/research\/tripwire-2016-energy-survey-physical-damage\/\">recent Tripwire survey<\/a> of more than 150 IT professionals in the energy, utilities, and oil and gas industries, 82 percent of respondents said a cyber attack on operational technology (OT) in their organization could cause physical damage.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, conducted in November 2015 by Dimensional Research, also found that almost 60 percent of respondents said they aren\u2019t able to track all the threats targeting their OT networks, either because they don\u2019t have the visibility necessary to track all threats (16.2 percent), because they only track threats that directly target their department (8.1 percent) or because there are just too many threats (35.4 percent).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter hundreds of years protecting our nation\u2019s geographic borders, it is sobering to note that possibly the most vulnerable frontier happens to be the infrastructure that runs the largest companies in the country,\u201d Rekha Shenoy, vice president and general manager of industrial IT cyber security for Tripwire parent company Belden, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esecurityplanet.com\/network-security\/82-percent-of-energy-sector-it-pros-admit-a-cyber-attack-could-cause-physical-damage.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>82% of Energy Industry (power grids, nuclear, solar, gas, etc.) say that a Cyber Attack Could Cause Physical Damage \u2014 and they didn\u2019t highlight those on some sort of life support or machine to help patients, etc. to live. According to the results of a recent Tripwire survey of more than 150 IT professionals in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,873,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nuclear-energy","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22150","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68444,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22150\/revisions\/68444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}