All Articles in Operational Technology

Gareth Williams shares his thoughts on the surging global growth of cyber-attacks against IT (information technology) and OT (operational technology) and explains why it can’t be eliminated in the foreseeable future.

The main trends that I expect to see for the operational technology security domain over the next year are threefold: there is an element of the threat evolving…

An OT Industrial Control Engineer for Thales shares their vision for the future of autonomous factories…

Tom Westenberg, ICS/OT Security Consultant for Thales, on the necessity for a deep dive into potential security vulnerabilities…

Stephen Boyle, Senior Cyber Security Consultant for Thales explains some of the risks…

Consider the gulf between your generic Information Technology and your custom-built Operational Technology. Not only are your OT and IT systems wildly different from each other, but they usually have different teams who are responsible for them… ...

Everyone wants the benefits of Industry 4.0. But before you launch into connecting everything up, old and new, you need to understand the equipment that’s critically important to your business…

We’re well on the way to Industry 4.0, and digital transformation is coming whether you’re ready or not. The bad news is you’re going to have to make some of it up along the way…

Digital transformation on the journey to Industry 4.0: do the risks outweigh the rewards? Gareth Williams examines the relentless rise of cyber-crime as enterprise races towards the fourth industrial revolution. The numbers might surprise you… ...