NIST releases energy sector guide for Operational Technology assets

The National Institutes of Standards and Technology has released a practice guide for energy sector organizations to establish, enhance and manage their Operational Technology assets.

“Energy sector companies rely on industrial control system (ICS) assets within OT environments to generate, transmit, and distribute power and to drill, produce, refine, and transport oil and natural gas,” said NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence in an announcement on Wednesday. “Given the growing complexity and critical role of these ICS assets, energy companies...