Top 10 Things IT Needs to Know About OT

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Our speaker this month is Casey W. O'Brien. Casey is the Assistant Director for Cyber Defense Education and Training with the Information Trust Institute in The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Casey has more than 25 years of large-scale information security and IT engineering, implementation, and management experience in challenging and cutting-edge public and private sector environments.

Summary of Talk: Operational Technology (OT) refers to systems used to monitor events, processes, and devices, and to make adjustments in industrial operations. As these systems and networks converge with enterprise IT, it’s imperative that IT personnel understand the business, cultural, and technical drivers that make OT different. This talk will focus on some of these differences.

Who Should Attend: This presentation will benefit those working in IT roles at organizations that have OT systems, as well as those interested in the convergence of enterprise IT and OT networks and systems.

Prerequisite Concepts: Attendees should come prepared having mastered the following concepts, which will be used throughout the talk:

Access Control
C-I-A Triad:
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Control Systems
Industrial Control Systems (ICS)

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