Webinar: Everything You Know About OT Security Is Wrong
Misconceptions about OT security run deep and some of them sound reasonable until you test them against how industrial environments actually work.
Wed. May 27 @ 11am New York
Does this sound familiar?
“Air gaps give a false sense of security.”
“Information is the asset – protect the CIA, or AIC, or IAC of the information.”
“If only we could patch, encrypt, AV, and IAM our OT systems just like we do our IT systems, then OT would be secure.”
“The real OT problem is all that brown-field equipment.”
“We have no budget for OT security.”
“IT and OT teams just don’t get along.”
“The first things we need are visibility and an asset inventory.
And so on…
Common wisdom in OT security is uncommonly mistaken. What’s really going on? Shoe factories are very different from passenger rail switching. Dramatically different worst-case consequences drive important differences between IT and OT security.
IT protection is preoccupied with espionage, while sabotage is the bigger threat in OT. Intrusion detection takes time, depends on human judgment, and by the time a human responds, the physical damage in an OT environment may already done.
Encryption and patching add complexity, uncertainty and cost enormously more in OT than they do in IT.
In this webinar we look at widespread misconceptions about OT security, at their root causes, and at more sensible approaches for teams making architecture and investment decisions today.
Webinar Key Takeaways:
• Why common OT security assumptions break down in practice
• How present OT security to drive better results across your teams
• How consequence changes the way OT threats should be assessed
• Where IT security approaches fall short in industrial environments
• More defensible approaches to OT security decisions and designs
Who Should Attend?
• OT/ICS engineers
• IT security teams taking on OT security
• CISOs with critical infrastructure assets in their portfolio
• Plant managers evaluating security and investment
About the Speaker
Andrew Ginter
Andrew Ginter is the most widely-read author in the industrial security space, with over 35,000 copies of his three books in print. He is a trusted advisor to the world's most secure industrial enterprises, and contributes regularly to industrial cybersecurity standards and guidance.
