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In this week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics:
- Critical infrastructure sectors on the most concerning threats – and needed solutions. “With critical infrastructure constantly under myriad threats, sector-focused information sharing and analysis centers and organizations collect, analyze and disseminate actionable cyber and physical threat information to stakeholders and provide them with tools to mitigate risks and enhance resiliency. To mark Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Threat Beat asked: 1) What is the most pressing short-term security concern in your sector? 2) What is one thing the public and/or industry/government can do now to address this?” Responses include DNG-ISAC, E-ISAC, FB-ISAO, Food and Ag-ISAC, Health-ISAC, MS-ISAC, ONE-ISAC, Space ISAC, and WaterISAC.
Main Topics:
Canadian Centre for Cyber Security: Alert – AL25-016 Internet-accessible industrial control systems (ICS) abused by hacktivists. In recent weeks, the Cyber Centre and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have received multiple reports of incidents involving internet-accessible ICS. One incident affected a water facility, tampering with water pressure values and resulting in degraded service for its community. Another involved a Canadian oil and gas company, where an Automated Tank Gauge (ATG) was manipulated, triggering false alarms. A third one involved a grain drying silo on a Canadian farm, where temperature and humidity levels were manipulated, resulting in potentially unsafe conditions if not caught on time. While individual organizations may not be direct targets of adversaries, they may become victims of opportunity as hacktivists are increasingly exploiting internet-accessible ICS devices to gain media attention, discredit organizations, and undermine Canada’s reputation. Exposed ICS components, including Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Remote Terminal Units (RTUs), Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), Building Management Systems (BMS), and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices, pose significant risks to organizations, their clients, and the broader Canadian public.
- Hackers are attacking Britain’s drinking water suppliers
- (TLP:CLEAR) Threat Analysis for the Water and Wastewater Sector, October 2025 – Executive Summary
Threat Snapshot: Cyber Threats Remain Heightened Amid Lapse In Information Sharing Authorities, Government Shutdown. As Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes to a close and Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month nears, today, the House Committee on Homeland Security released an updated “Cyber Threat Snapshot,” outlining the heightened threats posed by malign nation-states and criminals to U.S. networks and critical infrastructure since 2024. Read the previous “Cyber Threat Snapshot,” which outlined threats from 2021 through 2024, here. Read Chairman Andrew R. Garbarino’s (R-NY) op-ed from today in CyberScoop here. The current federal government shutdown, coupled with the lapse of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, is significantly constraining the federal government’s ability to coordinate with industry and execute its defensive cyber mission. This gap in federal cyber capacity comes at a moment when cyber actors affiliated with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are expanding their targeting of U.S. networks.
2 shot dead at Tennessee plastics plant by gunman who was ex-employee. Two employees of a plastics maker were fatally shot Monday morning in Cleveland, Tennessee, by an employee in the process of termination, authorities said. The two men killed at Barku Plastics were Tobias Gleinig and Ivan Aldergot, police said. Both were supervisors at the plant and citizens of Germany, Cleveland Police Capt. Evie West said at a news conference Monday night. Barku is a subsidiary of Barku Kunststofftechnik, a plastics producer established in Germany in 1977, which confirmed the “violent deaths” of Gleinig and Aldergot in a statement.
Quick Hits:
- Hurricane Melissa makes historic landfall in Jamaica as Category 5 storm
- ‘Total devastation’: Hurricane Melissa leaves trail of destruction, flooding in Jamaica
- ‘Tremendous unprecedented devastation’ in Jamaica from Hurricane Melissa, UN coordinator says
- Hurricane Melissa death toll nears 50 as Jamaica relief efforts intensify and storm heads north
Read more about Gate 15’s full podcast menu at our Podcast page. You can subscribe and enjoy all the Gate 15 Podcasts on Spotify for Podcasters, Apple, Spotify, as well as other locations accessible from the Spotify for Podcasters link. Week-to-week, you can hear and learn more about our all-hazards threats, risks, mitigation and other issues impacting homeland security risk management from our team as well as our regular and special guests. The full podcast menu includes:
- The Security Sprint is our weekly rundown of the week’s notable all-hazards security news, risks and threats and some of the key focus areas for organizations to consider behind the headlines. Gate 15 team members discuss physical security, cybersecurity, natural hazards, health threats and other issues across our environment.
- Nerd Out! Security Panel Discussion, moderated by Dave Pounder, focuses on physical security topics including terrorism, extremism, hostile events, and other pertinent topics.
- The Gate 15 Interview, is a monthly interview between Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour and guests from throughout the homeland security risk management community addressing a wide range of all-hazards topics and issues.
- The Cybersecurity Evangelist, with Jennifer Lyn Walker, is a cybersecurity-focused discussion with Jen and invited guests. This is presently a Gate 15 special podcast and occasionally is updated on our Gate 15 podcast channel.
- Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series was a 2024 limited series podcast as Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour hosted a series of short interviews with venue safety and security experts from the International Association of Venue Managers’ (IAVM) Venue Safety and Security Committee (VSSC) and other special guests from the IAVM community.
- The Risk Roundtable, was a monthly discussion among our team and occasional guests exploring the all-hazards threats and risks impacting the United States and internationally. This was suspended in September 2023.
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