Webinar Description
Key Takeaways
- Explores the convergence of OT and IT environments and its impact on monitoring strategies
- Demonstrates unified visibility across industrial systems, including the often-overlooked PLC layer
- Highlights practical approaches to consolidating health, security, and performance data in OT settings
- Features insights from Siemens Energy and Securenok on operational challenges and solutions
As operational technology (OT) environments evolve, their complexity increasingly mirrors that of traditional IT. This session brings together industry leaders to examine how organizations can achieve comprehensive visibility and control across sprawling industrial landscapes—bridging the gap between isolated monitoring tools and unified operational insight.
Industry Context: The OT-IT Convergence
Industrial organizations are facing a new reality: the boundaries between OT and IT are blurring. With dozens of tools monitoring endpoints, networks, virtual machines, patches, and backups—often in isolation—teams are challenged to maintain a clear operational picture. This convergence is driving a need for integrated monitoring strategies that can keep pace with both technological and threat landscape changes.
Session Focus: Unified Visibility with OT Pulse
Olexandr Rukas, Technology Manager for Process Control Systems at Siemens Energy, shares practical insights from years spent in the trenches of large-scale process control deployments. Drawing on real-world experience, Rukas demonstrates how OT Pulse—when combined with Securenok sensors—enables organizations to consolidate health, security, and performance data from across their OT environments into a single, actionable view.
One of the session’s central themes is the importance of monitoring at the programmable logic controller (PLC) layer. While traditional tools often overlook this critical component, PLC-level visibility is increasingly recognized as the missing link in robust OT security and operational strategies.
Expert Perspectives: Leadership and Innovation
Tonje Rønneberg Skei, Chief Executive Officer of Securenok, brings a strategic perspective on the mission to deliver deep visibility and protection for industrial control systems. Her leadership underscores the growing market demand for solutions that address both operational efficiency and cybersecurity in complex OT environments.
Practical Implications for Industrial Operations
The session offers a live walkthrough of OT Pulse in action, illustrating how Siemens Energy and Securenok are tackling the operational challenges of unified monitoring. Attendees gain a firsthand look at how consolidating disparate data sources can streamline incident response, improve system reliability, and close critical security gaps—especially at the PLC layer.
For professionals navigating the complexities of modern industrial environments, this session provides both strategic context and actionable guidance on building a more resilient, transparent, and secure OT infrastructure.