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OT Security Without Disruption: Passive Discovery and Protocol Baselines

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Maria Rodriguez
OT Security Lead
March 10, 2024
8 min read

Securing operational technology is different. You cannot afford downtime, you cannot install agents on PLCs, and you need protocol-aware monitoring. Here is how we do it.

Operational technology environments demand a fundamentally different approach to security. Traditional IT security tools - agent-based scanners, active vulnerability assessments - can cause unacceptable disruption or even safety incidents in OT environments...