Cybersecurity Viewpoints

“Driving Digital Transformation in Industry“: The ARC Industry Forum Europe is being reinvented as a virtual event, May 18th – 20th, with sessions on Cybersecurity and Safety, among others.

Coming up this Thursday at 10 AM Central time, Owl Cyber Defense will be hosting part II of its webinar series on securing the electric grid through isolation and segmentation.  Owl is partnering with firm Security Limits to offer a new solution for fully converged IT/IoT/OT environments, and last week's discussion was intriguing. 

PAS has carved a unique niche for itself among industrial software suppliers.  Today, the company’s primary focus is on OT integrity, including OT and ICS cybersecurity, automation asset management, and process safety.  At the 2020 ARC Industry Forum in Orlando, I once again had the opportunity to interview PAS founder and CEO Eddie Habibi.  We spoke about how customers can realize business value from the business value of digital transformation, the importance of providing information in context (to the right people at the right time), and the increasing importance of cybersecurity and building a good OT level asset inventory.  

Although it can be a challenge to remain isolated in our homes to protect ourselves in the midst of the pandemic, the experience can also provide us with new opportunities. Many of us have read about the use of virtual collaboration tools to allow students to continue their education while classrooms and campuses have been closed. This opportunity is not limited to students. We can all take advantage of Self-Paced Cybersecurity Training to enhance our current expertise in an area of specialty or explore new subjects of interest. 

The ARC Industry Forum Europe is being reinvented as a virtual event, May 18th – 20th, covering IT, OT, and ET Converge; AI and ML; Asset Performance Management; Cybersecurity and Safety etc.

Sid discussed a variety of developments and trends that continue to drive the market for industrial cybersecurity products and services.  

ARC Advisory Group will be publishing our upcoming Indexes for various segments of the overall automation market, including this one on machinery automation, as a series of Special Reports in PowerPoint format.

Cybersecurity is now at the forefront of all deliberations in a digitally connected world.  Once again an entire day at the ARC Industry Forum in Orlando featured cybersecurity workshops.  The Owl Cyber Defense workshop was hosted by Product Manager, Phil Won who provided guidelines to create a sustainable operational technology (OT) cybersecurity strategy.  

As we noted in a previous blog, there are many parallels between managing epidemics and cybersecurity.  Differences in the way countries have responded to and been affected by COVID-19 demonstrate the importance of being prepared with certain critical capabilities.  Relating these to cybersecurity can help identify and justify needed improvements to cybersecurity programs.  

In this podcast, we interview Mr. Joel Rakow of Fortium Partners, which consists of a network of world-class technology executives that are hired by Fortium clients in an advisory role.