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Let’s Talk About Why all This OT Stuff is Connected

It's been a really bad month (and year) for OT cybersecurity.

Let’s Talk About Why all This OT Stuff is Connected

From a wave of new, high-impact vulnerabilities, to attacks on supermarket refrigerators, to attacks on blood banks, we've been left shorthanded and reeling. And that's on top of months of attacks against water utilities.

Through all of this, I keep seeing the same comment from seasoned enterprise cybersecurity people, and as someone dealing with these cases on the front line, I find it very frustrating. They express intense shock that these systems are accessible via networks at all, then ask why they can't just be disconnected.

It goes something like this: This is just one example, and I'm genuinely not trying to bash the OP. I'm certain they're a very competent, experienced IT person, and I understand their frustration.

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