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Two experts in industrial cybersecurity of the international company S21Sec have given a lecture on Wednesday at the School of Industrial of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), in which they have stressed the importance of preventing virtual assaults to critical infrastructures and large factories.
"Cyber ​​attacks have a real-world impact and can pose a major threat to the environment or the distribution of essential services such as water and electricity or generate millions of euros if the production process is paralyzed in a large industry "Said Elyoenai Egozcue, technical director of industrial cybersecurity at S21Sec.
It has also alerted industrial cyberspace to companies in which "information is key to differentiate itself from the competition."
Egozcue said that companies operating the secret catalog of critical infrastructure "are aware of and are investing heavily in cybersecurity, even before the law forced them to do so," but considers that small industrial enterprises are vulnerable and that Through them "you can introduce 'malware' into the large companies for which they manufacture."
The experts have described for the students of Industrial Engineering of the Polytechnic the phases of a cyberattack, which begins by accessing the information of the productive structure before attempting to paralyze it or raise a blackmail.
And he has commented on some episodes in which cybersecurity has failed, such as the one that generated a brutal blackout in Ukraine, the clash of trams that provoked a Polish hacker or the dam that overflowed in the United States by a virus.
"Most attacks on critical infrastructures are sponsored by nation states," Egozcue said, recalling the evidence pointing to countries such as Russia, China and Israel.
"It's a new form of military strategy," he says.
According to Egozcue, "the most appropriate profile to work in this type of cybersecurity is an industrial engineer with computer skills and telecommunications."
Along with him, Francisco Luis de Andrés Pérez, from S21Sec, also participated in the conference, presented by the deputy director of the School of Industrialists, Antonio Guerrero.
S21Sec is a firm with 250 professionals dedicated exclusively to cybersecurity.
It has offices in four countries, is part of the Sonae Corporation and works for large multinational projects and for most Ibex 35 companies, bodies and security forces and European public bodies.
The services of S21Sec are the security audit or penetration test, malware analysis, intelligence services, security monitoring, training and consulting.
Source: UPCT
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