First Watch appoints two key members to advisory board
New Zealand-based developer of industrial cybersecurity solutions, First Watch, is pleased to announce two key appointments - welcoming Tom Batcheler and Declan Ingram. Tom Batchelor has accepted the role of Independent Director and will offer support as ...
First Watch secure $3.5 million in second round of equity funding
First Watch, a New Zealand-based provider of cybersecurity solutions for the global industrial networking and critical infrastructure market, has secured a second round of equity funding of $3.5 million. These funds will enable the company to continue ...
First Watch® will protect water, energy and other infrastructure companies from industrial ransomware
Beyond being scary, inconvenient and expensive, ransomware attacks that have hit New Zealand to date - from Lion to Fisher & Paykel Appliances to the Reserve Bank to the Waikato DHB have all had one thing in common. The hackers have targeted an organ ...
Cyber security in the age of Industry 4.0
The fourth industrial revolution, also known as Industry 4.0, refers to the ongoing automation of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices, using modern smart technology that has the potential to analyse and diagnose issues without the need for ...
An Analytics Framework for Heuristic Inference Attacks against Industrial Control Systems
Industrial control systems (ICS) of critical infrastructure are increasingly connected to the Internet for remote site management at scale. However, cyber attacks against ICS– especially at the communication channels between human-machine interface (HMIs) ...
Cyber Insurance and Security-as-a-Service Provisioning in Cloud Computing
In a 2014 report by McAfee it was estimated that financial losses due to cyber risks were between USD 300 billion and USD 1 trillion a year. The Identity Theft Resource Center’s 2016 data breach category summary found that as of November, there were 873 r ...
The Evolving face of modern Network Security
Over the past decade or two, an inevitable digital transformation shift has meant that organisations of various sizes and capacities have started storing assets and information digitally and are now reliant on a plethora of servers and applications to kee ...
Cyber Security in the OT Environment – a brief history
The OT environment started as a standalone piece of machinery being connected to a network to allow devices to be connected remotely to reduce wiring cost and control cabinet size. It allowed machine manufactures to be more flexible.The networks were Cont ...
