Integrated Solutions that can Plug the Security Gaps Arising from IT-OT Convergence to Find Increased Adoption

Frost & Sullivan's latest white paper, Guarding the Gates to a Converging World—Operational Security (OPSEC) in a Digital Era, discusses the value of a 360° approach to fortifying the people, processes, and technologies that empower true information resilience. It explores the need to implement an integrated solution to address the security challenges created by IT-OT convergence.

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"Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) face the complex task of protecting OT systems while allowing essential data, telemetry, and human machine interface (HMI) traffic to reach the centralized, connected enterprise databases," said Kenny Yeo, Associate Director, Security Practice, Frost & Sullivan. "A tailored OT solution can resolve this issue by providing broader, more granular visibility into the networks through a single pane of management, enabling a scalable reduction of attack surfaces."

"The Siemens Extensible Security Testing Application (SiESTA®) is a framework to carry out comprehensive security checks associated within IT-OT network environments. It was developed by Siemens AG practitioners for standardizing and automating testing procedures while granting flexibility by its extensibility, e.g., with third-party tools," remarked Dr. Henning Rudolf, Head of Global Cybersecurity Strategy & Business Enablement at Siemens. "The user-friendly SiESTA® management console enables simple planning and automation of individually compiled test procedures to empower security teams to determine the safety status of components. Significantly, it also enables safe, non-intrusive active testing in OT networks while minimizing the risk of product outages, application downtime, and system interruptions."

When selecting an OT solution, enterprises need to:

Overall, a dedicated IT/OT security solution can deliver benefits such as:

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