SANS ICS/IOT Cybersecurity Survey: 2023 Challenges and Tomorrow's Defenses

2023 ICS/OT Cybersecurity Survey addresses key questions, trends, and challenges, and puts forth best practices for practical control system cybersecurity applicable to all ICS sectors. This year’s datasets reveal several changes in important areas and, most strikingly, a lack of effort in some key and increasingly risky areas.

This year’s survey also maps key areas to the SANS Five ICS Cybersecurity Critical Controls, setting forth the five controls most necessary to implement, given the state of the ICS threat landscape. The controls form an ICS/OT cybersecurity strategy flexible enough to be tailored to an organization’s specific risk model, and they can be mapped to existing standards and frameworks such as IEC 624433 and NIST Cybersecurity Framework. It also examines recent attack patterns in real OT & IoT environments.