Security News > 2021 > January > Beyond the Pandemic: Far-ranging and Lasting Change Ahead for Industrial Networks
Part of what defines us is our ability to adapt to change and the faster we adapt, the more successful we will be.
The change we encountered in 2020 was unprecedented and had a dramatic impact on our operational technology environments - accelerating and sometimes recasting how we address the following four key areas.
As their OT and IT networks converge, more legacy OT assets become internet-facing, and they introduce more IoT devices to their environments, the security gap widens and the door for attackers opens further.
As we start to see a light at the end of the tunnel with the pandemic, the way we manage our businesses will change permanently, and therefore the technology we use to support it will change permanently as well.
To tackle one of the toughest challenges facing industrial cybersecurity practitioners today, secure remote access solutions with strict controls over sessions provide off-site access to OT environments while minimizing the substantial risks introduced by remote workers.
As security professionals, we know we can adapt to change and play a pivotal role in helping our organizations transition smoothly.