US agencies, international allies issue guidance on OT asset inventorying

Government agencies from the U.S., Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and New Zealand published guidance on Wednesday to help critical infrastructure organizations maintain up-to-date inventories of their operational technology.

The guidance, “Foundations for OT Cybersecurity: Asset Inventory Guidance for Owners and Operators,” lays out necessary steps for compiling an inventory, including the details necessary for each entry, the optimal ways to group assets together and the importance of tracking life-cycle data.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) partnered with the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Security Agency, and the FBI, as well as the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security, the Netherlands’ National Cyber Security Centre and New Zealand’s National Cyber Security Centre.

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