As factories connect to AI and the cloud, OT security becomes the new manufacturing battleground
As manufacturing moves from isolated automation towards connected, intelligent and AI-driven factories, the cybersecurity equation is changing. Operational technology (OT), once largely contained within the plant and separated from enterprise IT, is increasingly being connected to networks, cloud platforms and analytics systems.
For Ambarish Singh, CISO, Godrej Enterprises Group (GEG), that convergence creates significant opportunities but also a risk that manufacturers cannot afford to underestimate.
“OT systems, when they are designed to be connected, were built for a specific purpose,” Singh says. The difference today is that manufacturers increasingly want to extract data from those systems for predictive maintenance, analytics and AI.
Traditionally, OT operated with an air gap from IT. That separation limited the routes through which a cyber incident could move. But as sensors and connected systems bring plant data into IT environments and cloud platforms, the gap between the two worlds is becoming smaller.
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