Five Hidden OT Vulnerabilities Limiting Food & Beverage Performance and Modernization
Discover five hidden OT vulnerabilities that increase operational risk, impact quality and compliance, and delay AI readiness and modernization efforts.
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The Unlikely Convergence of Beer & Biotech: CIP Systems & Batch Standardization
At first glance, a commercial brewery crafting thousands of barrels of beer each week doesn’t appear to have much in common with a biopharma facility culturing monoclonal antibodies. The brewery operates in a high-volume, cost-sensitive market where profits hinge on throughput and brand consistency while the biotech facility operates under stringent compliance standards where batch failure carries multi-million dollar consequences.
Legacy Machines & Bridging the Air-Gap vs. Data Analytics Dilemma
In the world of industrial automation, isolating OT from IT has been the paradigm for cybersecurity best practices for decades. It’s simple and it’s highly effective – if physical processes are isolated from the IT network, an IT breach doesn’t result in a major operational disruption. This isolation was referred to as the hard air-gap. In this siloed ecosystem, a facility’s legacy PLCs, HMIs, and SCADA networks were significantly less exposed to external cyber threats because of physical isolation, though risks from removable media, contractors, and internal access still existed.
