The following are excerpts from a book set to be launched Nov. 1, 2023. Much has been written about the differences between conventional IT networks and operational technology (OT) or industrial ...

The critical need for collaboration between engineering and cybersecurity to effectively manage cyber-physical risks in ...

Over the past year, E Tech Group says it has experienced 400% growth in IT/OT assessment and remediation work as ...

Operational technology (OT) networks are a primary means of profit for manufacturers of a variety of products, from everyday household items to semiconductors and industrial-scale fabrications. Yet, ...

When the first operational technology (OT) system was created in the late 1960s, it was designed as a distributed control system with a focus on safety, reliability and availability. Security for such ...

I recently started to think about some of the problems with industrial control system (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments. In particular, how devices within them are sometimes connected to ...

When OT systems are brought into the IT security realm, there are more devices that need network connectivity and greater segmentation is required to isolate those devices. Zero-trust architectures ...

In 2023, the cybersecurity challenges in the Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) landscape reached unprecedented levels. Ransomware, increasingly prevalent through new ...

Traditional attempts to merge IT/OT threat detection, network segmentation, and secure remote access are impractical in today’s world, Cisco exec says. Cisco has plans to deliver the same network and ...

Databases are a common point of attack by threat actors, but an uncommon type of database is gaining attention as a potentially critical target: data historian servers. On Jan. 17, the US ...

As Industry 4.0 accelerates convergence across manufacturing, healthcare, and energy, siloed monitoring infrastructure is leaving organizations exposed to security threats, prolonged downtime, and ...

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...