TAP Into Technology Blog: Industrial OT (7)
CISA's 5-year strategy highlights need for visibility in ICS
Revolutions have a habit of creating new problems that their advocates did not anticipate, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution is no exception. For example, it seems safe to say that most of the engineers who overhauled industrial control...
2 Fundamental Challenges Facing Critical Infrastructure in 2021
With recent headline grabbing hacks and breaches, the possibility of disruptions in the energy and power, water distribution, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical infrastructure that society relies on everyday, is a reality. The SolarWinds...
Managing Your Unmanageable OT and IT Infrastructure
As industrial systems become increasingly connected to IT, Cloud and ERP systems, they become increasingly exposed to cyber threats such as ransomware. In fact, cyber threats for industrial control systems (ICS) are on the rise. Asset...
Reducing Network Complexity for an Oil & Gas Giant
With the digital revolution Oil & Gas (O&G) companies are facing, integrating their operations environments through AI, robotics, analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT), with increasing connectivity chasing the ultimate goal of faster...
SCADA Security Starts with Network Visibility
Supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA), or industrial control systems (ICS), have been monitoring and controlling our industrial, power and refinery world since the 1960s. SCADA started out analog, focused on monitoring...
7 Common Visibility Challenges in Industrial Environments
The convergence of Operational Technology (OT) with Information Technology (IT), has exposed many challenges for the industrial space, including increased vulnerability to cyber attacks and network blindspots. Unfortunately, many companies...