According to Gartner, OT security is referred as the practices and technologies used to protect people, assets, and information, monitor and/or control physical devices, processes and events and initiate state changes to enterprise OT systems. What is the importance of OT security? The rise of the industrial internet of Things (IIOT) leads to industrial transformation
Operational technology (OT) systems are widely applied in a large range of asset-intensive sector such as manufacturing, oil and gas, electrical generation and distribution, transportation, mining, and utilities. The main component of OT is industrial control system or in short ICS. It has been introduced briefly in our previous post about ICS as a main
The emerging of technologies brought about a new term called IT/OT convergence. The IT/OT convergence refers to the integration of Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) where the two systems work side by side in monitoring and regulating essential business processes outside of regular IT workflows. How can IT improve OT? Originally, OT focuses
Operational Technology or in short OT has become more significant in the industry as the industrial processes continues to improve. What is operational technology? While the term Information Technology (IT) is a much more familiar to us, the concept of OT has been around longer than that of IT. Operational technology, as defined by Gartner,
At the heart of every industrial facility is a network of industrial control systems which is comprised of purpose-built controllers. Sometimes known as Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and Remote Terminal Units (RTUs), these controllers are dedicated industrial devices that serve as the bedrock of all industrial processes. Today’s sophisticated Operations Technology (OT) environments have a