OPSWAT, ondeso, present solutions to protect critical infrastructure

OPSWAT, ondeso and EMT in association with the Global CIO Forum organised a virtual summit on the Protect Your Critical Infrastructure webinar on 26th January 2022. The conference focused on critical infrastructure that are vital to a company or country and their incapacity would have a disastrous impact.

In the IT World, critical infrastructure is always referred to as operational technology and is the practice of using hardware and software to control industrial equipment.

For the past couple of years, threat actors have targeted organisations in energy, oil and gas and utility sectors. Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure have become increasingly complex and disruptive, causing systems to shut down.

ICS environments can also serve as a gateway into enterprise and government which frequently maintain sensitive data, as well as classified security information. Simply put, it is because of such high stakes that critical infrastructure organizations needs an abundance of qualified, highly skilled cybersecurity professionals to help identify, mitigate, and remediate threats of all types.

Critical infrastructure security is highly important in protecting systems and services that are essential to society and the economy.

Nandini Sapru, Vice President of Sales, EMT welcomed all the speakers and attendees. “It is what makes a company’s data or network so critical, that in case of a calamity a lot of people and a lot of data and a lot of situations would be affected.”

Fawad Laiq, Senior Technical Manager, emt Distribution briefed the challenges faced in OT Networks and said, “Many of the OT Networks have a lot of legacy systems. Their updates, patching and management is not that easy because of the restrictions including physical and even the logical restriction which we have in a place.”

Oren Dvoskin, Vice-President of OT and Industry Marketing, OPSWAT talked about 2020-2021 OT ICS Security trends and OPSWAT OT, Industrial Cybersecurity, OPSWAT Netwall, and Unidirectional file transfers.

Vincent Turmel, Senior Director of OT Product Sales Engineering, OPSWAT highlighted few essential points including Unidirectional file transfers, OT ICS data replication, Data Centre Security, case study on electricity distribution and OPC UA Replication.

Peter Lukesch, COO, ondeso also highlighted the hidden potential of strategic IT Management in industrial environments, avoiding vulnerabilities, improving reliability and quality, major errors of operational technology and information technology solutions.

Arun Shankar, Editor, GEC Media Group conducted a question-and-answer session with Oren Dvoskin, Vincent Turmel, Nandini Sapru, and Peter Lukesch.

The event was concluded with an amazing quiz with the attendees and Megha Arora as the winner won an iphone 13.