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As businesses refine their digital strategies, experts recommend integrating IT with operational tech. According to Lynda Stadtmueller, research vice president and global practice area leader at Frost ...

David Schiffer is the CEO of RevBits and formerly of Safe Banking Systems (SBS). RevBits develops cybersecurity software for organizations. Our digital future is dependent upon robust cybersecurity.

Industry 4.0 and the industrial internet of things (IIoT) have placed information technology (IT) and operation technology (OT) convergence at the heart of business processes, crucial to a company’s ...

This month marks the first anniversary of the Colonial Pipeline shutdown — a hugely impactful ransomware attack against critical US infrastructure that has had significant diplomatic and legislative ...

In 2016, when I wrote about IT/OT convergence as one of the key mantras in Smart Manufacturing, my opinion was that IT/OT convergence was not only a technical issue, but an organizational one. In ...

After hearing about it for as long as a decade, the convergence of AV and IT has officially taken hold. These days, though, a new kind of convergence is starting to take hold: the convergence of IT ...

Heiko Claussen is SVP of AI at AspenTech, responsible for the company’s industry 4.0 strategy, industrial AI research and data science. Industrial companies have been on the road to information ...

When OT systems are brought into the IT security realm, there are more devices that need network connectivity and greater segmentation is required to isolate those devices. Zero-trust architectures ...

The convergence of IT and operational technology (OT) systems is expanding the attack surface and exposing critical infrastructure to new threats. That was the central theme of a high-level panel ...

It is that convergence has been approached primarily as a systems problem, rather than as a leadership and governance challenge. Technology can aggregate information and improve visibility. What it ...