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This new sensor integration gateway can send data to both IIoT and PLC destinations.

Demand for secure connectivity between OT and cloud systems has never been greater.

The currect OT cybersecurity landscape necessitates building adaptable security architectures that apply tools in environment-specific ways, across both legacy infrastructure and modern digital systems.

Accessing production data through a DMZ can be done with well-designed tunnel/mirror software.

The modern enterprise needs secure access to data from OT to increase efficiency and cut production costs.

Digital Transformation is all about data, and companies will only achieve this goal if they manage their data differently than in the past.

Oil and gas projects are looking for ways to decrease costs while production and efficiencies increase.

An increasing number of intentional attacks are being detected that target industrial control systems (ICS).

Gain visibility at scale and enforce ISA/IEC62443 zones and conduits to find and contain threats. This feature originally appeared in the AUTOMATION 2023: Cybersecurity & Connectivity ebook published in September.

Meet NIST SP 800-82 guidelines and the NIS 2 Directive with a system that incorporates demilitarized zones. This feature originally appeared in AUTOMATION 2023 Volume 2: Connectivity & Cybersecurity.

Understand the types of hazardous areas and variety of explosion protection methods to best protect industrial operations. This feature originally appeared in InTech Focus: Control Systems 2022, the InTech Focus ebook for September 2022.

As business operations become more digitized, cybersecurity can no longer be an afterthought because the implications of failing to stay abreast of the latest protection solutions and best practices pose much more than just financial risk.

OT/IT convergence introduces new attack surfaces in industrial control systems.

OT data challenges to securely executing a smart manufacturing strategy.

Securing valuable IIoT data is a business imperative, demanding reevaluation of traditional architectures and adoption of new best practices.

The online training brings together the combined knowledge, best practices and application-specific expertise of three industry leaders to help engineers build a holistic IP-based network architecture.

Usually during cybersecurity presentations, the speakers talk about serious consequences of cyber security and then overwhelm people, who are not familiar with the topic, with deep levels of details and intricacies. This one answers a simple question: Where does the reasoning begin?

SCADA systems were traditionally “walled off” from other systems operating independently from the network. Prior to the awareness of possible attacks, this seemed to provide all the protection the SCADA system needed. They were largely proprietary systems with such limited access and esoteric coding that very few people would have the ability to access them to launch an attack. Over time, however, they became integrated into the larger company network as a means to leverage their valuable data and increase plant efficiency. Therefore, the reality is their security is now often only as strong as the security of the network.

Automation.com, February 2012 By Paul Didier, Cisco In production environments, typically the order of priority is Availability, Integrity and then Confidentiality. This is opposite of the priority in IT, where it's Confidentiality, Integrity and last is Availability. That makes a big difference in the way security is approached.