Why your business can't trust the data behind its own security decisions
When a critical vulnerability alert lands in a traditional IT environment, it’s rarely a cause for panic regarding the operational continuity of the business. The affected laptops, servers, and applications can be identified quickly, and a good team can catalogue and patch them within hours if it’s urgent. The priorities are clear, and there’s very little guesswork involved.
General Manager for EMEA at Claroty.
Now picture the same alert landing across a hospital's imaging equipment, a factory floor's control systems, or a building's HVAC network. These cyber-physical systems (CPS), the connected devices that run physical operations rather than just processing data, sit at the sharp end of IT and OT (operational technology) convergence.
But unlike traditional IT assets, confirming whether that alert even applies to a specific device can take days, and often ends in a guess rather than an answer.
While this kind of uncertainty would be considered...
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