Summary

As you have read through this chapter, the uniqueness and different challenges presented by both OT and IoT should be clear. These environments are within an industrial type of environment, which has physical consequences including potential impact on human safety, so the importance of protecting these environments is essential. Understanding that these environments create a complete set of different challenges in addition to the IT challenges is the first step to building a robust dedicated program for OT/IoT. Unless you have a small amount of OT/IoT, it is highly recommended you have a dedicated cybersecurity OT/IoT program built to replicate the same functions covered for IT. It’s important to understand that the cybersecurity skill sets for OT will be different from IT so you’ll need to ensure you are hiring the right personnel to build an efficient OT cybersecurity program. It’s also important to note that there is already convergence between IT and...