Getting IT & OT to speak the common language of IIoT vulnerability management

Manufacturing executives probably don’t think of renowned Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw when planning Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) deployments. Maybe they should. Shaw’s famous quip about England and America being "two countries divided by a common language," captures the differences between corporate IT and production OT, or Operational Technology, departments. While both IT and OT teams are acutely aware of the cybersecurity challenges for successful IIoT implementations, how each department addresses those threats is based on different priorities and requirements. IT staff are accustomed to managing endpoint hardware and software to ensure dynamic, low-latency, high-throughput and… [Continue Reading]