The Convergence Problem: A Blind Spot on the Plant Floor
For decades, Operational Technology (OT) networks were built on the assumption of physical isolation. Air gaps, proprietary protocols, and specialized hardware kept plant-floor systems separated from corporate IT and, by extension, from the internet. That assumption no longer holds. Predictive maintenance platforms, remote vendor support, and enterprise resource planning integrations all require data to move between the plant floor and the business network, and that data flow has quietly erased the air gap in most modern manufacturing facilities.
Even with tools like Dragos who are . . .
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