"It's not that we use technology; we live technology." - Godfrey Reggio
The acceleration of IIoT adoption depends on many enabling factors. Of those, safety and security are the foremost. Many technology vendors have started to recognize security as the elephant in the room for IIoT business cases. However, there are still a large number of industrial enterprises who are yet to prioritize security in their IoT adoption strategies, deterred mainly by its associated cost, complexity, and resource implications. Oftentimes, IT security controls are perceived as impediments in highly reliable and deterministic OT environments.
As more and more industrial organizations digitally connect their control systems and OT infrastructures, IIoT security countermeasures are no longer a matter of choice. The Stuxnet incident has already proved the inadequacy of the security...
