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Beyond Segmentation: A Practical Approach to Securing OT Systems
As an oil and gas operator, you function in a target-rich environment for cyberattack. But are your fears over unseen threats preventing you from leveraging the full power of Digital and the Internet of Things (IoT) in your facility? Or hampering your development of a sound security strategy? It’s…
A guide to maximizing your chances of success with IoT
“Dream big, start small.” This may sound like a clichéd phrase from a motivational poster, but it’s actually a very valuable piece of advice for enterprises to heed when deploying Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives. By now, we all know that IoT has the power to drive digital transformations across…
Cisco Live! Melbourne Abounds with Co-Innovation Opportunities
With record-setting attendance of nearly 8,400, Cisco Live! Melbourne opened up new vistas of digital opportunity for our co-innovation teams across Asia Pacific, Japan and China (APJC). Throughout the week at the Co-Innovation Pavilion, we hosted a steady stream of inquisitive customers, partners,…
Diving Headfirst into the Co-Economy
Have you ever been to a fast-moving square dance? Partners dance together, spin around a time or two, and then move onto new partners. As the dance progresses, some people return to their original partners, while others will dance once and leave the floor. If you pay attention, this resembles a fast…
OT Intent-Based Security Policies
Over the last few years, cybersecurity without doubt, has emerged as the top of mind concern in Industrial Control Systems (ICS). But, it is the breadth and depth of ransomware attacks in 2017 that has led industries in manufacturing, utilities, oil & gas, mining etc. scrambling from what was a…
Watch now: Top 5 business expansion strategies for system integrators
Earlier this month, I was involved in a webinar in partnership with CSIA and Panduit that focused on system integrators and expanding their business. The system integrator role is evolving from being project-centric into a long-term solutions partner who can help manufacturing clients in critical ar…
Industrial applications: What does a successful deployment look like?
I recently took part in a plant tour with a manufacturer in the early days of modernizing its plant floor. Two decades old, this factory had always relied on manual data collection. The team hand-carried operational data back to the office to be correlated and analyzed. Then they would make improvem…
Come Together: Cost Savings Unite IT and Operations
Manufacturing to IT: “You just don’t understand the reality of the factory floor.” IT to Manufacturing: “Your legacy systems expose us to security and hackers.” Greater than 99% of the companies I visit waste time, budget, and emotional cycles battling between the information technology (IT) a…
A Bromance for the Ages: When IT met OT
Jordan and Pippen. DeMar and Kyle. Magic and Kareem. The Great One and The Moose. Edwin and Jose (…too soon?) Sports history is filled with dynamic duos. Players who so perfectly complemented each other in skills and personality that they elevated their entire team to greatness. A business is no dif…