Maintaining the reliability and security of Operational Technology (OT) systems is critical to avoid severe ‘real world’ physical impacts from interruption to essential services, safety concerns, environmental pollution, and destruction to property. For businesses, not complying with OT-specific regulations can also mean losing their licenses to serve specific regions or industries.
This whitepaper provides an overview of the core issues and offers a structured approach to formalizing and initiating an OT security program including:
- Understanding the OT Threat Landscape from supply chain attacks and ransomware to more physical threats such as unauthorized physical access.
- Avoiding the common obstacles to OT security maturity such as legacy systems, low tolerance for system downtime and shortage of specialized skills to proprietary systems.
- Getting started with an OT cybersecurity program and mapping out key milestones to progress your maturity across key security domains including assessments, governance, prevention, detection and response, and management.
