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Integrate IT and OT Security Operations to Protect the Purpose of a Business

| Author: Santha Subramoni, Ganesh Subramanya, Shriram Chine

Essential points:

  • Attacks on physical infrastructure and operational environments in an era of “phygital” integration — similar to the cyber attacks on IT infrastructure that already beset enterprises and their customers — have raised the risk level for companies exponentially.
  • Expanding cyber vigilance by means of an integrated IT and operating technology (OT) security operations model can mitigate these risks.
  • Finding and distributing in-house resources to address both OT and IT security, particularly for globally dispersed operations, can challenge an enterprise’s talent pipeline.
  • Fortunately, service providers able to address emerging attack methods and replication techniques across both technology platforms and operational environments can enable and manage integrated security at scale. 

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