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Industrial Cyber – Cybersecurity services provider IOActive announced today the launch of a Continuous Penetration Testing service (CPT).  The new CBT service employs an innovative testing method designed to address the challenge of integrating security testing into an agile development model. As many organizations have moved to Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes the independent validation and verification processes have not aligned with that enhanced agility until now.

Verdict – Cesar Cerrudo is the CTO of IOActive, a security research company that approaches security from the attacker’s mindset. The US firm’s team of security consultants work with some of the world’s largest organisations to find flaws in their cyber defences. As CTO, Cerrudo leads a team of ethical hackers that have hijacked technology throughout the stack, including jeeps and robots, and often presents his research at leading cybersecurity conferences such as Black Hat and RSA.

SecurityWeek – Are cyber criminals likely to attack the food industry? The answer is clearly ‘yes’; and there are at least three obvious channels: hacktivists, cyber-criminal gangs, and nation states. “Moving to more significant automation is going to change the risk profile in a way that a lot of organizations haven’t formerly had to manage – operational technology has not been considered a high-risk priority,” commented John Sheehy, Sr. Vice President at IOActive.

The Cyber Edge – Amid growing fears that U.S. military reliance on civilian space infrastructure might prove a weak point, two organizations are seeking to improve cybersecurity in the burgeoning satellite industry. “The cost to attack a space-based asset through a cyber attack is orders of magnitude smaller than through a kinetic attack,” notes John Sheehy, SVP at IOActive.