Author: Andrew Ginter

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Cybersecurity approaches unique to OT security

Cybersecurity Approaches Unique to OT Security

The engineering profession has powerful tools to address physical risk, tools that should be applied to OT cyber risks much more routinely than they are today. For example: mechanical over-pressure relief valves prevent boilers from exploding for any reason, cyber attack or otherwise. These powerful tools are too often neglected for cyber threats because they have no analogue in IT security – they not even mentioned in most cybersecurity standards, regulations and advice.

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August 15, 2024
What is OT anyway?

What is OT Anyway?

Engineers have very recently started to use the “OT” term, primarily when interacting with enterprise security teams. Engineers use the term to refer to the computers and networks that control important, complex, and often dangerous physical processes

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April 2, 2024
Can Government Save OT Security

OT Cybersecurity: Can the Government Save Us?

Governments play an important role in OT security: they educate, they share threat information, they vet our employees and other trusted insiders, and from time to time they legislate cybersecurity defenses that the most consequential industrial enterprises must implement.

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March 21, 2024
are we still trying to protect industrial information

OT Security: Are We Protecting the Information?

Industrial network engineers have always been uneasy with the task of “protecting information”. The real priority for OT security is in stopping inbound malicious information from entering the system and threatening machinery and workers.

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March 7, 2024