Paul Viorel
How can critical infrastructure protect and defend against Conti?
· Cybersecurity

How can critical infrastructure protect and defend against Conti?

The best way to defend against potential ransomware attacks is to deploy multiple layers of overlapping protective and defense measures and leverage an endpoint risk security program. The endpoint approach uses OT-specific endpoint visibility and inventory techniques to gather asset information directly from the endpoints themselves and integrates with other security components to complete the […]

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[Research] Risks of the Industrial IoT in Compromised Campus Networks
· Connected Industry

[Research] Risks of the Industrial IoT in Compromised Campus Networks

5G, along with its role in industries, is a popular topic. An important part of this conversation is the campus network, which serves as one of the key implementations of 4G/LTE and 5G technologies in an industrial setting. In particular, campus networks were implemented to fulfill the growing requirement for higher availability and lower latency, […]

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June 2022 Industrial IoT & ICS Cybersecurity Events
· Connected Industry

June 2022 Industrial IoT & ICS Cybersecurity Events

It’s June, and we are halfway through 2022, but most of these events are just beginning to have in-person conferences and expos. For this month, we’ve curated the list – and timeline – of events happening in June 2022 around the globe, in-person or online, and what’s in it for the Industrial IoT & ICS […]

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The way forward: Merging IT and operations
· Connected Industry

The way forward: Merging IT and operations

To keep up with the speed of digital business, more organizations are looking to bring together information technology, which manages data, and operational technology, which handles manufacturing and industrial equipment. Integrating the two departments can help improve productivity and boost competitiveness. Aside from the commercial pressure to digitize and tap technologies such as artificial intelligence, […]

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[Ebook] 4 Prevailing Industrial IoT Use Cases
· Connected Industry

[Ebook] 4 Prevailing Industrial IoT Use Cases

Industrial IoT is at a transition point. While the number of connected devices continues to grow at a rapid rate, IoT is no longer just about monitoring equipment behavior. Increasingly, the value of IoT comes from collecting machine data and then analyzing and drawing out insights for quick action. Specifically, when IoT is combined with […]

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Digital twins: what are they and how they can help your company
· Connected Industry

Digital twins: what are they and how they can help your company

The concept of digital twins has been around since the 1970s, but more recently we’ve started to see rapid adoption of the technology in a number of scenarios. With organizations in energy, transport, manufacturing, medicine and others creating digital twins to help understand how specific processes, instruments, even people will react to changing situations. What […]

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[Report] Security Risks Are Slowing IT-OT Convergence
· Connected Industry

[Report] Security Risks Are Slowing IT-OT Convergence

Fortinet has worked with Forrester Consulting for a third time to check in on security trends affecting those who manage and maintain critical infrastructure—including the industrial control systems (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems that manage everything from factories to refineries to telecommunications infrastructure. Based on a global survey, the report identifies […]

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Rethinking technology partnerships to thrive in the digital age
· Connected Industry

Rethinking technology partnerships to thrive in the digital age

In the past few years, there have been some major enterprise-focused digital transformation initiatives across industries, along with a lot of innovation around big data and analytics. It’s fair to say that technology is at the core of business success, and a lot of importance is given to persona-based experience and process management. Since these are […]

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Data Management on the Edge
· Connected Industry

Data Management on the Edge

Up until recently, there have been two options for handling data on the edge: 1. Send raw data to the cloud where it can be stored and analyzed; or 2. Discard the data. Sending all the raw data to cloud is not the right choice for every organization/or system. As far as discarding the data, […]

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