Armis has announced Sachin Shah as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Operational Technology and Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Reporting to Nadir Izrael, co-founder and Global CTO at Armis, Shah’s appointment is set to help bolster the company’s cybersecurity OT/ICS solutions. With the increased frequency and sophistication of today’s attacks, depth and breadth of
Researchers at Armis have announced the discovery of an authentication bypass vulnerability in Schneider Electric’s Modicon programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that can lead to remote-code-execution (RCE). The vulnerability, dubbed Modipwn, allows for a complete takeover of impacted devices by leveraging the UMAS protocol, and impacts Modicon M340, M580 and other models from the Modicon series. Millions of devices use these PLCs and are now
Asset visibility and security platform, Armis has released results from a survey that gauged the UK workforce’s attitudes towards cyberattacks on critical infrastructure. Carried out by Censuswide*, the survey found that nearly 9 in 10 (87%) believe that cyberattacks on critical services, such as oil suppliers, healthcare services, police departments or water treatment facilities, could
Armis and Eseye have announced a partnership and joint solution to enable organisations to deploy connected devices anywhere in the world with consistent, reliable cellular (4G/LTE/5G) connectivity. While Eseye’s connectivity management platform enable devices to switch intelligently to any one of over 700 GSMA-compliant carriers, Armis’ Agentless Device Security Platform provides device discovery, monitoring and
Armis has announced the appointment of Tim Mackie as the new Worldwide President of Channel. As a well-respected individual in the cybersecurity and broader technology industry, Mackie recently led Recorded Future, SentinelOne and Cylance’s international channels and worldwide distribution. “Tim’s reputation, experience, and success building high growth and sustainable partner programs that have directly assisted
Armis and Viakoo have formed a partnership that brings together IoT device discovery and remediation. Armis detects out-of-compliance devices and Viakoo can trigger certain actions on them, like firmware updates, configuration modifications, certificate refresh and password changes, which can remediate risk. Devices that can’t be remediated would continue to be monitored by Armis for suspicious
A ransomware attack on UK National Health Service IT services provider, Advanced, has highlighted different attack vectors that cybercriminals are using to target healthcare providers. Advanced provides digital services like patient check-in and NHS 111, both key patient services. Rather than directly target the organisation, attacking a key supplier exposed an alternative weakness that caused
A nationwide survey of 2,000 UK employees conducted by Censuswide on behalf of Armis, analyses the new working culture and security of personal devices before the inevitable return to the office. The results released today, demonstrate a heightened cybersecurity threat as the majority of the UK workforce (61%) intend to return to the office with their personal devices,
The latest roundtable discussion from Security on Screen analyses the Colonial Pipeline’s major ransomware attack and how it highlights the risk ransomware can pose, not just to businesses, but to critical national industrial infrastructure The US government issued an emergency legislation on Sunday after The Colonial Pipeline (located in Alpharetta, Georgia) was hit by a
The latest roundtable discussion from Security on Screen analyses the recent cyber attack against Apple’s major supplier, Quanta, as well as ransomware payouts – should they be the last resort? One of Apple’s major distribution suppliers, Quanta was hit by a cyber attack yesterday in an attempt to “recover data” after one fo the world’s
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