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By Diwakar Dayal
The proliferation of digital transformation in India’s booming industrial sector is driving the convergence between Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) systems to create new efficiencies and competitive advantages. The upside of the IT/OT convergence is that it optimizes production, drives innovation and increases sustainability. On the flip side, previously siloed systems now having to work together means that there are even more access points than before for bad actors to enter the network.
As concluded in the 2019 report from Ponemon Institute and Tenable, industrial systems have increasingly become a target for cyber attacks and it’s an issue that is keeping CISOs up at night1. The same report revealed that 90 percent of organizations have experienced at least one damaging cyberattack, and 62 percent have experienced two or more in the past 24 months. One only has to look at attacks on industrial control systems (ICS) and systems of critical infrastructure in the form of malware like NotPetya, to not want to suffer the same fate.
The issue the industrial sector faces is that traditional IT asset discovery…
