Smart technologies have the potential to make cities more sustainable, efficient and secure, but maximizing their potential requires an IT and operational technology convergence that has historically ...

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 ...

The convergence of IT and operational technology (OT) systems is expanding the attack surface and exposing critical infrastructure to new threats. That was the central theme of a high-level panel ...

One team quotes Shakespeare. The other speaks in Morse Code. Now, imagine forcing them to write a play together. Yet IT and OT organizations are being asked to work as one. Is full integration really ...

In this conversation with Dark Reading Editor-in-Chief Kelly Jackson Higgins, Carmine Valente, deputy CISO of New York-based electric utility Con Edison, discusses the rapidly evolving landscape of IT ...

The convergence of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) is redefining cybersecurity, knocking down the traditional virtual boundaries between the two. But as the rising ...

With the utilities sector facing complex challenges in integrating IT and OT efforts, Info-Tech Research Group has published a comprehensive blueprint designed to help IT leaders overcome these ...

Converged IT and operational technology (OT) systems were targeted in 75% of cyber incidents impacting manufacturing firms in the past 12 months. A new report by Telstra International and Omdia ...

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 ...

As the boundaries between operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) dissolve, identity is becoming the connective tissue and the point of greatest vulnerability. Industrial and ...

Cyberattacks, extreme weather events, and increasing digital interdependence between enterprise systems and operational technologies are exposing gaps in traditional business continuity and disaster ...

How Ethernet dominance, IT/OT convergence and industrial data fabrics are transforming industrial networks and shaping the future of manufacturing connectivity. Industrial networks are the backbone of ...