Tag Archives: operational excellence

What a year! The market to Monitor, Manage, and Protect industrial automation systems emerges.

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In 2012 Industrial Defender witnessed a major market shift as global critical infrastructure operators responded to the series of issues including escalating cybersecurity attacks, increasing ICS complexity, proliferation of intelligent devices, and imminent regulatory evolution.  The market has acknowledged the need for advanced technologies to automate the management of their heterogeneous control systems and has begun large-scale projects to enhance their security, compliance and change mana << More >>

Managing change sustains security and enables compliance

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For years critical infrastructure providers in the utility, energy, chemicals and other manufacturing industries have wrestled with how best to handle SECURITY across the unique, complex, heterogeneous automation system environment.  Many looked to the use of existing enterprise point solutions, only to find them unsuitable for the control system environment.  Some turned to point solution providers servicing the enterprise IT who were extending their marketing focus into the automation system << More >>

OT and IT – One Size Does Not Fit All

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When it comes to power generation, chemical processing or oil production, not all computer networks can be treated equal. Though they appear to share similar technologies, information technology (IT) networks and operational technology (OT) networks are two very different environments. For one, OT systems tend to include several specialized systems like SCADA, that are not found anywhere in the IT world. Second, there cannot be downtime in OT networks – ever. They must be managed 24/7, 365, wi << More >>

ICS Perspectives

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Today, Industrial Defender is relaunching its blog. This forum, formerly known as “Findings from the Field” has been expanded and renamed “ICS Perspectives”. Why? Well, it may seem trivial, but this decision directly aligns with what I have seen and heard while engaging with customers and partners globally. “Findings from the Field” was intended to be a resource focused specifically on security for industrial control systems. This made good sense when we launched – security was << More >>