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Understanding OT Frameworks & Standards for Secure Industrial Networks

In April 2021, a ransomware attack shut down the largest pipeline network in the United States. Colonial Pipeline, which supplies almost 50% of the Northeast’s energy needs, lost nearly 100 gigabytes...

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How Manufacturers Gain Full Visibility in OT While Adopting Industrial IoT Technologies

Etymologically speaking, the word “manufacturing” has its roots in a Latin phrase that means “making by hand.” In practical terms, when talking about manufacturing, you're talking about factories –...

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OT Segmentation Best Practices For a More Secure Industrial Network

In the age of the Industrial 4.0 Revolution, data is king. It’s the impetus that drives IT/OT convergence in some of our most critical industries. Smart cities like Dallas are merging IP subnet-based...

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ICS Village Series: Aggregating Distributed Industrial Networks

As ICS/OT environments get upgraded and modernized, challenges surface on deploying asset inventory and threat detection solutions within a distributed network. These include monitoring a network...

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Preventing Packet Loss for Optimal Network Performance

Downtime is an expense that few businesses can afford in the age of hybrid work and digital transformation. According to Datto, an hour of downtime costs $8,000 for a small company, $74,000 for a...

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ICS Village Series: Overcoming Legacy Equipment Challenges

Traditionally, operational technology (OT) networks were architected almost entirely separate from information technology (IT) networks. As digital transformation efforts within organizations began...

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