Despite changing economic conditions globally, investment in cybersecurity for OT and critical infrastructure continues to increase. Growing regulatory oversight, continued modernization initiatives and heightened executive awareness of OT risks are driving change in cybersecurity practices. Mature your cybersecurity strategy by embracing the possibilities available through an OT Cybersecurity Platform.

Practitioners working in and supporting critical infrastructures around the world are seeing increasing regulations, reports of adversarial targeting, and business demands for increased connectivity to process data. Support teams need to work together now more than ever to enable the business and defend essential systems. While there are guiding principles for each organization to consider in project prioritization and program implementation approaches, there is no one “right” way for all organizations, no silver bullet device or software solution to procure. This talk will highlight three areas for attendees to consider as they examine the challenges within their organization and work to shape their best path forward:

• Drivers and constraints around IT and OT complimentary organizational and technology design (It’s not all just ‘T’),
• Immediate, near term, and future capital project and O&M planning time horizon considerations (Risk lens and balancing act),
• Necessity of operationalizing cybersecurity capabilities to ensure system reliability, integrity, and safety (using your information, to inform operators).

In this exclusive session we sit down with subject matter experts from leading industrial automation companies for an exciting thought leadership panel discussing trends in cybersecurity and their experiences in navigating the industry.

Critical infrastructure organizations are on alert as bad actors see these infrastructures as attractive target for cyber-attacks. Ransomware variants, phishing emails, wiper malware and more show up as tactics used to disrupt services offered by these infrastructures. As digital transformation grows, so does the number of users, devices and applications connected across the operational technology, information technology, and cloud domains. This increases the number of remote users accessing critical systems like meters, sensors, and industrial control systems. While for many critical infrastructure owners and operators, this positively contributes to operational efficiency, it has also increased cyber risk and expanded the attack surface introducing known and unknown threats to the critical systems. During this session, we will look at the threats impacting critical infrastructure organizations and discuss the value of a threat-informed defense strategy for securing these organizations.

As digital transformation drives change in operations, industrial organizations are leveraging production data to improve efficiency and inform decisions. With transformation comes an increase in OT systems connected to enterprise IT networks, expanding the attack surface and introducing increased risk to the business. Let's explore how to fortify cybersecurity across the supply chain keeping OT production networks safe, available, and secure.

At the intersection of an expanding threat landscape and accelerated modernization of operational technology and critical infrastructure, lies the need to evaluate your security posture. Gaining greater visibility to network activity, while a great starting point, is only the first step. During this session, Rod Locke will discuss the sources of cyber risk, a holistic approach for layering networking and security controls and the value of virtual patching in a legacy and modern cyber-physical environment.

Digital transformation reveals the need for greater cybersecurity preparedness across the energy and critical infrastructure sectors. Cybersecurity risk, as with all risks, cannot be completely regulated or eliminated, but instead must be managed through informed decisions that support the people and the process with cybersecurity technology. Listen in as we share how customers in the energy and infrastructure sectors better detect risks and mitigate them more rapidly to keep OT production networks safe, available, and secure. 

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, asset owners are juggling evolving compliance and regulatory requirements with the need to keep pace with cybersecurity essential and advancing technologies. Most OT environments run legacy technologies that are sensitive to disruption and lack effective security. Industrial environments once built to operate in isolated networks are now connected to the internet, exposing them to all the threats that plague IT networks. During this session, Aasef Iqbal will discuss the cybersecurity evolution taking place for OT including security essentials for critical infrastructure, the impact of regulations, and the value of investing in a security platform that will support your cybersecurity strategy now and as you mature.

Securing OT and critical infrastructure can be complex. Take the next step by leveraging the Fortinet OT Security Platform and our integrated, strategic partners, to mature your cybersecurity strategies.