ARIA Cybersecurity Blog

Cyberattacks on Water Facilities Are Growing | Aria Cybersecurity

ARIA Cybersecurity Solutions — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:18:19 GMT

The water industry provides the drinking water and wastewater systems we all use every day. As such, it counts as a key piece of the nation’s critical infrastructure. But it is also in the crosshairs of a dangerous new wave of cyberattacks, originating from cyber criminals and hostile nation-states.

Five 2025 New Year’s Resolutions for OT Cybersecurity Leaders | ARIA Cybersecurity

ARIA Cybersecurity Solutions — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:13:27 GMT

As we enter 2025, cybersecurity leaders in critical infrastructure industries—pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and utilities—face the growing challenge of protecting operational technology (OT) environments against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. These critical industries are not only the backbone of our modern economies but also prime targets for a new wave of cybercriminals—some nation-state-backed actors—seeking to cause disruption, take down critical infrastructure, and extort their targets.

A Year in Cyberattacks - Lessons for Critical Infrastructure Security | ARIA Cybersecurity

ARIA Cybersecurity Solutions — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:22:23 GMT

As industries such as utilities, manufacturing, and others grow increasingly reliant on operational technology (OT) to run their businesses, we’ve seen cyberattacks targeting these critical systems surge over the last year. We examined some of 2024’s more notable cybersecurity incidents impacting companies with critical infrastructure. We also explore how ARIA’s AZT PROTECT™ solution could have thwarted these attacks, providing a blueprint for safeguarding systems in this dangerous new era.

How Should OT Companies Measure Cyber Risk? | ARIA Cybersecurity

ARIA Cybersecurity Solutions — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:27:45 GMT

The ARIA Cybersecurity team had a hugely productive week in Anaheim, California at the recent 2024 Rockwell Automation Fair. The event was a fantastic opportunity to make connections with companies from across different industries. They all shared one objective: to discover innovative new ways to protect their industrial operations from the dangerous new wave of sophisticated cyberattacks.

Critical Infrastructure is Under Attack - Next-Gen Zero Trust Can Help Protect

ARIA Cybersecurity Solutions — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:58:10 GMT

The United States government is ramping up efforts to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure, providing guidance to both public and private sectors to strengthen their security and resilience over the next two years.

ARIA’s and Rockwell Outline New Cybersecurity Approach | ARIA Cybersecurity

ARIA Cybersecurity Solutions — Tue, 21 May 2024 18:49:24 GMT

ARIA and Rockwell detail how a global pharma giant is securing its production facilities using AZT PROTECT in new webinar

UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Subsidiary disrupted by Cyberattack | ARIA Cybersecurity

ARIA Cybersecurity Solutions — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:38:38 GMT

A major cyberattack has just hit the systems of a subsidiary of US health insurance giant, UnitedHealth. In an SEC filing, UnitedHealth said that it suspected a “nation-state associated cyber security threat actor” of gaining access to Change Healthcare, part of its Optum subsidiary and one of the largest prescription processors in the US, forcing it offline.

How to Protect Against Supply-Chain Attacks | ARIA Cybersecurity

ARIA Cybersecurity Solutions — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:18:27 GMT

SUNBURST (SolarWinds) – How ARIA would have stopped the supply-chain cyberattack of the decade – and others like it

Protecting OT From Unknown Vulnerably Exploits | ARIA Cybersecurity

ARIA Cybersecurity Solutions — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:43:04 GMT

The new generation of cybersecurity defenses must protect against never-seen-before attacks even before they are devised by the attackers. In early December 2023, a security researcher at SafeBreach presented a paper (Alon Leviev Security Researcher, SafeBreach - December 6, 2023 Blackhat UK) at BlackHat Europe describing new process injection techniques utilizing Windows thread pools to attack a system. The researcher wanted to see if:

The SEC Just Got Serious About Cyber Incident Reporting | ARIA

ARIA Cybersecurity Solutions — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:55:41 GMT

New SEC rules demand full disclosure of material cybersecurity incidents 4 days after they happen – are your OT security tools able to help stop “material” breaches?