TAP Into Technology Blog: Industrial OT (7)
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...
Providing Visibility to your Industrial SCADA Virtualization Environment
With ever-present and growing security threats from both foreign and domestic sources, safeguarding utility networks and communication infrastructure has become paramount to protecting utility grids from hacking and providing uninterrupted...
Air Gapping: An Added Layer of Security for Industrial Cloud Environments
Despite ever-increasing cybersecurity budgets, attackers continue to find ways around network defenses and are on track to cause over $6 trillion in damages annually by 2021. As cloud adoption continues to grow, attackers are taking...
Networking News: Data Center Outages, IoT Security and SD-WAN
The networking world is ever changing, with new monitoring and security tools entering the market, companies introducing exciting new technology, partnerships being formed to create disruptive solutions, and more. With so much note-worthy...