The Industrial Cyber Unit of the Ministry of Environmental Protection publishes a guide that includes professional guidelines, designed to assist establishments in implementing the conditions set for the establishment in the toxin permit – including instructions for performing risk mapping, risk assessments and implementing required protections. The guide is a mandatory standard for factories that will receive additional cyber conditions in the poison permit.
If a cyber attack on factories takes place, it could cause an environmental event that would result in severe damage to the environment and even harm to human life. Especially when cyber attack is in facilities that use hazardous materials controlled by computer systems.
There are currently about 70 hazardous materials plants regulated by regulation, which means that in Israel today there is no complete solution to the cyber risks that exist in industrial control systems, which use hazardous materials that could cause hazardous materials to occur. In light of this, the regulation is now being extended to additional establishments, as part of a multi-year work plan.
The purpose of the Ministry of Environmental Protection’s regulation is to systematically and continuously increase the level of protection in cyberspace in terms of reducing and preventing environmental risks and risks to public health and human life, with an emphasis on cyber risks in industrial plants that can cause hazardous materials incidents.
The ministry strives to implement the requirements efficiently and quickly, and the tool for regulatory activity in the cyber field is the toxin permit, which is a tool for implementing the Hazardous Materials Law.
Lilach Fadlon, Head of the Emergency and Cyber Division at the Ministry of Environmental Protection: “We continue to expand the regulation to more and more factories in Israel. The guide will assist factories that use hazardous materials managed and controlled by computer systems, to implement the conditions set out in the Toxins Permit on behalf of the Ministry of Environmental Protection. This, in order to reduce the risk of a cyber incident that could cause a hazardous substance incident and harm to public health and the environment. “
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