SD-WAN Isn’t Just for Retail

In any organization, being responsible for cybersecurity is a complex job entailing interactions with the teams managing software development, servers, databases, storage, and networking. It becomes even more challenging where there is also a need to protect industrial installations and the Operational Technology (OT) that runs them in critical industries such as manufacturing, energy, and extraction.

Although it is not always on the OT security team’s radar, in the IT networking world Software Defined Wide Area Network, or SD-WAN, is the hot topic right now and it is just as applicable to the world of OT. However, SD-WAN has major security implications which might have even greater impact in an OT environment than they would in a typical SD-WAN deployment.