By its very nature, risk assessment is a complex activity, all the more so as each facility is unique.

In order to be effective and useful, the protection solutions you implement must be both flexible and integrated: flexible in order to be effective regardless of the infrastructure requiring protection; integrated so that the feedback is relevant and useful.

This combination can only be achieved through collaborative dialogue between the operational teams and the team handling corporate security.

But how can this be done? And with the threat of cyberattacks looming, how can we achieve IT/OT convergence securely?