Security News > 2023 > March > How Mirel Sehic relies on simplicity to focus on product security

For facility operators, this includes elevators, HVAC systems, PLC controls, valves, pumps, and a whole slew of systems that we don't think of as 'connected.

Regarding attacks on operational technology systems, "You've lost access to your security feeds. Now, if it's a standard premium commercial building, you may say, 'okay, I need to fix that right away'. But what if it was a hospital? What if it was a data center? What are the implications, and is this an inconvenience or does it put lives in danger?".

The biggest challenge facing these organizations is how to integrate legacy systems into their modern digitized operations.

Mirel Sehic explained that "Today we have flat networks. So, what does this lead us to? Well, we've got a lot of systems talking on these networks. Some are dated, some are fairly new and some are bleeding edge new."

Meril tells his clients and shares with the industry, "All of these systems have started to talk to each other- so that's new. That wasn't really the case in the past. Systems are now talking to other systems that weren't sharing data. These systems are also talking to the edge devices and back down. They're talking from the device level to the cloud or from the device level to the edge, to the cloud."

Security systems are not built in a day and resilience is equally as important as protecting against today's threats.

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