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 ...

As businesses refine their digital strategies, experts recommend integrating IT with operational tech. According to Lynda Stadtmueller, research vice president and global practice area leader at Frost ...

Industry 4.0 and the industrial internet of things (IIoT) have placed information technology (IT) and operation technology (OT) convergence at the heart of business processes, crucial to a company’s ...

Heiko Claussen is SVP of AI at AspenTech, responsible for the company’s industry 4.0 strategy, industrial AI research and data science. Industrial companies have been on the road to information ...

Data diodes are re-emerging as a preferred control as IT-OT convergence expands the industrial attack surface and regulators ...

Heiko Claussen is SVP of AI at AspenTech, responsible for the company’s industry 4.0 strategy, industrial AI research and data science. The recent convergence of information technology (IT) and ...

Converged IT and operational technology (OT) systems were targeted in 75% of cyber incidents impacting manufacturing firms in the past 12 months. A new report by Telstra International and Omdia ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Not all that long ago, the cybersecurity ...

With the utilities sector facing complex challenges in integrating IT and OT efforts, Info-Tech Research Group has published a comprehensive blueprint designed to help IT leaders overcome these ...

The convergence of IT and operational technology (OT) systems is expanding the attack surface and exposing critical infrastructure to new threats. That was the central theme of a high-level panel ...

It was the night before end-of-quarter, and all through the plant, factory floor systems were breaking down because IT flagged a security violation on a safe but rarely used industrial process, and ...