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This month marks the first anniversary of the Colonial Pipeline shutdown — a hugely impactful ransomware attack against critical US infrastructure that has had significant diplomatic and legislative ...

As businesses refine their digital strategies, experts recommend integrating IT with operational tech. According to Lynda Stadtmueller, research vice president and global practice area leader at Frost ...

Industry 4.0 and the industrial internet of things (IIoT) have placed information technology (IT) and operation technology (OT) convergence at the heart of business processes, crucial to a company’s ...

Sameer Malhotra is cofounder and CEO of TrueFort, a former Wall Street tech exec and an expert in IT infrastructure and cybersecurity. The line between operational technology (OT) and information ...

When OT systems are brought into the IT security realm, there are more devices that need network connectivity and greater segmentation is required to isolate those devices. Zero-trust architectures ...

After hearing about it for as long as a decade, the convergence of AV and IT has officially taken hold. These days, though, a new kind of convergence is starting to take hold: the convergence of IT ...

In 2016, when I wrote about IT/OT convergence as one of the key mantras in Smart Manufacturing, my opinion was that IT/OT convergence was not only a technical issue, but an organizational one. In ...

In light of recent incidents that impacted both information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) environments, organizations are increasingly evaluating the risks associated with growing IT ...

Saryu Nayyar is CEO of Gurucul, a provider of behavioral security analytics technology and a recognized expert in cyber risk management. For years, industries from manufacturing to utilities to ...

As Industry 4.0 and IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) concepts become real applications, an exciting conversation has developed centered on the integration of information technology (IT) with ...