An Oil and Gas Revolution: The Convergence of IT & OT
Oil & Gas IQ has made available a free white paper on the problem of industrial systems being exposed to risks and dangers that were never considered in their original design: the threat of malware and cyber attack.
Historically, industrial processes and the technology that supports their operation, Operational Technology (OT), have been isolated from connectivity with the outside world. However, in recent years an increasing number of industrial processes, utilities and factories have become interconnected with each other and their Enterprise LANs, the report says.
The white paper covers security considerations in the separate worlds of IT and OT, the inevitability of convergence, the risks of convergence, and security for the converged network.
