Every Network Is Now an OT Network. Can Your Security Keep Up?
– John Maddison
Fortinet’s new carbon-neutral campus, for example, includes integrated OT smart building elements like automated lighting, windows, shades, HVAC systems, and a wide variety of headless IoT devices—and we have had to integrate all of them into our IT network fully.Add things like mobile workers, cloud-based services and resources, edge computing, and essential business applications like streaming video, and the legacy security solutions and strategies you have in place will inevitably begin to create bottlenecks and gaps in your protection—if they haven’t already.Building your security architecture around platforms that can operate in any environment and form factor is a critical first step in ensuring that you can identify and address security weaknesses, detect brewing and active events, and launch a coordinated response across every segment of your network.A centralized, single-pane-of-glass management system, consistent policy deployment and enforcement, the sharing of real-time threat intelligence, and the ability to operate natively in any cloud environment should be table stakes for designing and implementing a modern network security system.Many legacy systems treat networking and security as siloed functions, but it’s critical to build infrastructure and leverage solutions that bring security and networking together, meaning they have critical security functionality woven directly into their operations or, better yet, have been built on a security platform.
Link: https://www.securityweek.com/every-network-is-now-an-ot-network-can-your-security-keep-up/