{"id":9293,"date":"2015-06-02T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=9293"},"modified":"2022-04-12T23:28:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T06:28:14","slug":"good-patch-management-is-crucial-to-cybersecurity-in-ics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/good-patch-management-is-crucial-to-cybersecurity-in-ics\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Patch Management Is Crucial to Cybersecurity in ICS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good cybersecurity strategy for industrial control systems (ICS) must include both a systematic approach to patch management and compensating cybersecurity controls for when patching is not an option. Patch management resolves bugs, operability, reliability, and cybersecurity vulnerabilities.\u00a0The ISA-TR62443\u20112\u20113 technical report, developed by the ISA 99 Working Group 6, addresses the patch management aspect of ICS cybersecurity.<\/p>\n<p>The topics of patch management and compensating controls are covered in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/resources\/techbriefs\/scada-ics-solution-brief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on-demand webinar<\/a> that is part of our ongoing series on ICS cybersecurity.<\/p>\n<p>Hear from Bill Cotter (co-leader of the IEC62443 Patch Management working group), Joe Weiss (Managing Director of ISA99) and myself on several topics including:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The unique aspects of ICS that entail a different and more rigorous approach to patch management than that used in business networks<\/li>\n<li>An overview of the ISA 99 standards efforts with detail review of the main aspects of the ISA-TR62443-2-3 Technical Report on Patch Management in IACS<\/li>\n<li>Advancements in compensating cybersecurity controls (network and endpoint based) for protecting systems from known and zero-day threats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We hope that you find the webinar interesting and helpful as you develop your ICS cybersecurity strategy. For more on Palo Alto Networks solutions for ICS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/industry\/scada-and-industrial-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">head here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good cybersecurity strategy for industrial control systems (ICS) must include both a systematic approach to patch management and compensating cybersecurity controls for when patching is not an option. Patch management resolves &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,566],"tags":[1216,97,47],"coauthors":[693],"class_list":["post-9293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity-2","category-scada-ics","tag-patch-management","tag-webinar","tag-zero-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9294,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions\/9294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9293"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}