Address challenges to quality operational data by paying attention to four key data aspects. Industrial digital transformation had its beginnings in the Industry 4.0 initiative, unveiled in Germany in ...

While industrial technology infrastructure has numerous components, two of the most prominent are the systems that manage the flow of information—that is, information technology (IT)—and those that ...

Hardware and software additions to Fortinet's OT Security Platform are aimed at protecting assets linked to industrial networks and helping enterprises converge OT and IT network operations. Fortinet ...

Researchers from Claroty this week disclosed multiple critical vulnerabilities in vendor implementations of the Open Platform Communications (OPC) network protocol that is widely used in operational ...

The IIoT is at the basis of the so-called Smart Factories, new advanced manufacturing units of the fourth industrial revolution. Smart sensors, super-fast connections, artificial intelligence ...

Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is poised to have the biggest impact on industrial networking since Ethernet was introduced to the plant floor more than two decades ago. “The goal is to ensure a ...

Ethernet-based OT (operations technology) networks are commonplace today, but switch selection and network topology design continue to be an afterthought in many cases. In the past, TCP/IP-based ...