Resources for IT/OT Convergence

2025 OT Security Financial Risk Report

  • White Paper

Dragos presents an investigation into the financial impact of cyber incidents involving OT assets and provides important estimation of potential future OT cyber breach losses.

Automation.com Monthly June/July 2025

  • Ebook

Welcome to the latest issue of the International Society of Automation’s digital magazine, Automation.com Monthly. The focus of this issue is IIoT & Digital Transformation.

White Paper: OT Security Insights 2024

  • White Paper

A proactive, adaptive approach to OT security is critical to safeguarding against the growing complexity of cyberthreats targeting critical infrastructure systems.

AUTOMATION 2024: 1st Annual OT Cybersecurity Trends Report

  • Ebook

This first annual OT Cybersecurity Trends issue from Automation.com provides a window into the challenges to and available resources for industrial control and automation system cybersecurity.

White Paper: IIoT System Implementation and Certification Based on ISA/IEC 62443 Standards

  • White Paper

This report explores the use of the ISA/IEC 62443 series of standards for industrial automation and control systems (IACS) that include cloud-based functionality (i.e., industrial internet of things (IIoT)).

White Paper: Wireless Deployment Challenges in Construction - A 5G Strategy

  • White Paper

This whitepaper explores deploying wireless communication networks within construction projects and introduces a comparison approach to assess deployment difficulty at each project phase.

White Paper: Zscaler ThreatLabz 2023 Enterprise IoT and OT Threat Report

  • White Paper

As IoT devices become more common in industrial and enterprise settings, the risk from IoT-specific malware is increasing dramatically. Cybersecurity leader Zscaler has released a research report that tracks these risks and highlights trends in the IoT malware landscape.

AUTOMATION 2023: Cybersecurity & Connectivity (September)

  • Ebook

This September issue of AUTOMATION 2023 covers topics including visibility at scale, enforcing ISA/IEC62443 zones and other tips for securing OT and IIoT networks.

White Paper: For MQTT Smarter Is Better

  • White Paper

With increasing interest in connecting OT (operations technology) to IT, MQTT has been called upon to connect not only sensors and actuators in the field but also edge devices, SCADA systems, IoT gateways and more.

Webinar: Engineering Solutions for OT Cybersecurity

  • Webinar

In this webinar, we dig into engineering solutions to industrial control system cyber risk, especially the emerging field of network engineering: designing networks to eliminate entirely the most important classes of cyber-attacks.

What's the Use of the IIoT?

  • White Paper

The IIoT connects devices with the digital world to provide data visibility. But the real value of the IIoT lies in how that data will be used by industry to realize the potential benefi ts of this connectivity.

Bridging the IT/OT Divide

  • White Paper

Today’s smarter edge devices can streamline integration efforts while providing secure remote access for end users and machine builders, too

Data Protection Best Practices

  • White Paper

Protecting sensitive data created, stored and consumed by sensor-driven Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology and applications is one of the foundations of trustworthy IIoT systems.

Webinar: IIoT and the Connected Workspace - Infrastructure to Support Industry 4.0 and Beyond

  • Webinar

The audience will receive a comprehensive overview of trends in the IIoT space and an overview of the installation challenges and product solutions to ensure a safe, stable and secure Edge installation.
 

Advancing Automation: Industrial Cybersecurity

  • Ebook

In this Industrial Cybersecurity eBook from Automation.com, we focus on the latest insights and initiatives changing the landscape of cybersecurity.

Advancing Automation: Cybersecurity

  • Ebook

Automation.com has compiled a new edition of our Cybersecurity eBook to deliver the necessary information needed to ensure the strongest possible safeguards for any facility and facilitate future planning to keep one step ahead of the next cyberattack.

Advancing Automation: IIoT and Industry 4.0

  • Ebook

This eBook will look at some of the complex barriers that are currently hindering IIoT efficiency as well as discuss ways, in which to overcome them. It will also share some of the new technologies that have impacted the industry throughout the last year.

Advancing Automation: Cybersecurity in Industrial Enviornments

  • Ebook

To help arm companies against the threats, Automation.com has worked with the IoT experts at Cisco to provide you the latest edition of our Cybersecurity eBook, filled with detailed reads on the latest strategies and technologies to keep your industrial networks secured, and your company one step ahead of the hackers.

Advancing Automation: Cloud Analytics

  • Ebook

This eBook is designed to serve as a resource showing organizations both the technologies that can help them efficiently leverage all the data that their facilities have to offer, as well as strategies to fully connect and secure your systems in the process.