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Tag: OT security

Embracing OT-IT Convergence: How Automation Software Management Can Enhance OT Security

In the era of digital transformation, industries are increasingly embracing the convergence of Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) systems. Industries are adopting software-defined architectures as they see a need for real-time data exchange, enhanced operational efficiency, and data-driven decision-making. OT-IT convergence enables seamless data flow between operational and enterprise systems, facilitating real-time monitoring, […]

Architecting for Resilience in the cloud for critical railway systems

Introduction With the successful use of cloud computing in the IT space (analytics, simulation and workflow management), companies in highly regulated industries, such as railways, increasingly look at also migrating their OT systems (control systems, real-time monitoring, and transaction management) into the cloud. The main motivations for this are to achieve high availability and redundancy […]

Best Practices for Manufacturing OT Security

This post was co-written with Russell de Pina, former Senior Partner Solutions Architect at AWS Introduction In manufacturing plants, there have been IT systems used for creating, managing and processing enterprise business data and separate OT (Operational Technology) systems used for managing operations of factories and industrial equipment. As manufactures connect their OT systems to […]