Summary: Huntress released their 2025 Cyber Threat Report this week highlighting key findings from the past year, offering a snapshot of the past year’s most common threats. The insights provide actionable guidance to help stay one step ahead of ever-evolving cyber threats.
Summary: The transformative role of Cyber Informed Engineering (CIE) in enhancing the resilience of water and wastewater infrastructure was recently highlighted at the S4x25 conference. The conference underscored lessons learned and effective case studies illustrating the impact of CIE on critical infrastructure. CIE aims to embed cybersecurity principles directly into the engineering processes of OT systems ensuring cybersecurity considerations are integrated from the ground up.
The following posts are useful for general awareness of current cyber threats, vulnerabilities, guidance, and other cyber-related news or updates. These resources have been curated by the WaterISAC analyst team as items of broad relevance and benefit that do not need supplemental analysis at this time.
Critical Infrastructure Resilience & OT/ICS Vulnerability Management
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the following ICS security advisories, along with additional alerts, updates, and bulletins:
ICS Advisories:
The following posts are useful for general awareness of current cyber threats, vulnerabilities, guidance, and other cyber-related news or updates. These resources have been curated by the WaterISAC analyst team as items of broad relevance and benefit that do not need supplemental analysis at this time.
Critical Infrastructure Resilience
Summary: On Tuesday, OT cybersecurity company Claroty released a report titled “State of CPS Security: OT Exposures 2025”. The report highlights the risks to operational technology (OT) systems within critical infrastructure are becoming increasingly hostile. The threat environment is complicated by Chinese adversaries integrating malicious tools into U.S.
Summary: CISA—in partnership with international and U.S. organizations—released guidance to help organizations protect their network edge devices and appliances, such as firewalls, routers, virtual private networks (VPN) gateways, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, internet-facing servers, and internet-facing operational technology (OT) systems.
Summary: The World Economic Forum (WEF) highlighted the growing challenge of securing software supply chains, emphasizing the rising need to safeguard against hidden dependencies. As businesses increasingly rely on third-party software suppliers and open-source solutions, they face significant hurdles in ensuring the security and integrity of their software ecosystems.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the following ICS security advisories, along with additional alerts, updates, and bulletins:
ICS Advisories:
Summary: President Trump last week issued a flurry of executive orders that upended a number of government initiatives focused on improving the nation’s cybersecurity posture. In one instance, the president fired all advisors from the Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB).
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