Securing the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Digital Transformation is both a great driver of progress and efficiency, and an economic disruption that can deeply impact the innovation and development rhythms of organizations. Adopting digital technology to transform products, services and businesses involves gaining greater insight and control for improved efficiency, typically by leveraging new data streams. These efforts often redefine experiences, such as customer experience, and can include changes in operating models that affect the security of digital assets.

In Operational Technology (OT), Digital Transformation is driving two big changes:

OT systems are being connected to networks that they weren’t connected to before in order to extract new data about operations. By definition, these systems live at the “edge” of the infrastructure and, therefore, must be deployed, secured, and managed as endpoints.

Data-rich software applications are being deployed in OT production environments where this new data can best be used. Latency constraints in processing the data may result, due to its high volume and bandwidth. To address this issue, applications are also being deployed, secured, and managed at the endpoint.

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