Operational Technology

Why focus on IoT security?

August 20, 2020

Editor

Greg Day, VP and Chief Security Officer, EMEA, at Palo Alto Networks explains that from a doorbell to a fish tank to a nuclear reactor, IoT is overtaking everything as we enter the next stage of a connected world and the advent of 5G is only going to up this process, so securing IoT has to be our prime focus.

Industrial Security

Risks of USB threats to industrial security has doubled

July 16, 2020

Editor

In a report released today by Honeywell based on cybersecurity threat data collected from hundreds of industrial facilities globally, the severity of threats detected to operational technology (OT) systems has risen by significant amounts over a 12-month period.

Cyber Security

Honeywell Forge to protect Kuwait Integrated Petroleum

June 17, 2020

Editor

Honeywell and Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC) have extended their strategic collaboration, signing a five-year, multi-million dollar contract for services to protect, maintain and optimize operations at the Al Zour refinery and LNGI terminal.

Marty Edwards, the new Vice President of Operational Technology Security at Tenable

Appointment

Tenable appoints new vice president of OT security

January 6, 2020

Editor

Tenable, announced the appointment of Marty Edwards, a globally recognized expert in cybersecurity for industrial control systems and operational technology (OT), as the Vice President of OT Security.

Cyber Security

Kaspersky eliminate IIoT vulnerabilities

January 27, 2019

Priyanka Prakash

Kaspersky Lab experts have helped to identify and patch seven previously unknown vulnerabilities in the ThingsPro Suite – an industrial IoT platform, designed for industrial control systems (ICS) data acquisition and remote analysis.

Analysts

Trend Micro uncovers major design flaws in IoT protocols

December 5, 2018

Editor

Trend Micro today warned organizations to revisit their operational technology (OT) security after finding major design flaws and vulnerable implementations related to two popular machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols,

Expert Corner

IoT closes gaps between OT and IT

August 7, 2018

Editor

Oliver Horn, Senior Solutions Architect – Alliances at Red Hat shares his views about IoT representing the beginning of a new era of networked systems that will eliminate the division between the traditional operational control systems of Operational Technology and business-oriented Information Technology.

Azeem Aleem, Global Executive Director, Cyber Resilience Services at CPX

Expert Corner

Time to Rethink: OT Strategies Are Failing

August 21, 2025

Editor

Azeem Aleem, Executive Director of Cyber Resilience Services at CPX, stresses that securing OT environments demands Trusted Advisors, secure-by-design practices, and collaboration to protect critical infrastructure and ensure resilience and safety.

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