An Executive’s Guide to Industrial Cybersecurity: What You Need to Know
As enterprises invest heavily in digital transformation, industrial cybersecurity will increasingly serve as the critical enabler for safely and securely advancing business goals through technological innovation.
While advancing connectivity and digitalization of operational technology (OT) provides significant benefits, they can be diminished by heightened impacts from security incidents. OT working environments are very different than IT and are tied to the core function of the business, so interruptions from attacks threaten the availability, integrity, and safety of industrial infrastructure.
Download this executive guide to get up to speed on operational technology systems and how to better secure them. You’ll learn:
- How OT systems are key to running the business and how digital transformation and hyperconnectivity increase risk and exposure
- Why OT cybersecurity is different from IT cybersecurity
- How the OT threat landscape is growing rapidly and increasing in sophistication
- Why remediating OT vulnerabilities requires a different approach than IT vulnerabilities
- Next steps executives should take to assess and address the unique challenges of OT cybersecurity