Webinar Description
Key Takeaways
- Examines the shift from vendor-led remote access to federated control models in industrial environments
- Addresses governance challenges for asset owners managing third-party access to operational technology
- Covers authority distribution, accountability and oversight across multiple organizations
- Relevant to manufacturing, critical infrastructure and industrial automation sectors
- Hosted by Secomea as a live webinar in English
Federated Control in Industrial Remote Access
This webinar, titled “From Connectivity to Federated Control,” explores how industrial organizations are rethinking governance models for remote access. As operational technology environments grow more complex, asset owners in manufacturing and critical infrastructure face mounting pressure to provide secure access to machine builders, integrators and service partners while retaining clear oversight of their systems.
The session focuses on federated control as an emerging approach to distributing authority and responsibility across organizations without sacrificing accountability. This model represents a departure from traditional vendor-led access arrangements, where equipment suppliers typically managed remote connections to their own machinery with limited visibility for the asset owner.
Governance Challenges in Multi-Organization Environments
Industrial ecosystems now routinely involve multiple external parties requiring access to OT environments. Machine builders need to diagnose equipment issues, system integrators must configure and update systems, and service engineers require connectivity for ongoing maintenance. Each relationship introduces questions about who holds authority, who bears responsibility when incidents occur and how compliance requirements apply across organizational boundaries.
The webinar addresses practical challenges that complicate these arrangements, including emergency access scenarios where speed conflicts with security protocols, establishing appropriate levels of trust with different vendor categories, maintaining compliance with industry regulations and managing legacy systems that may lack modern access controls.
Who Should Attend
The session targets professionals responsible for managing or providing third-party access to industrial systems. This includes OT managers and cybersecurity leads at asset-owning organizations who must balance operational efficiency against security requirements. IT managers working alongside OT teams on converged infrastructure will find the governance discussion relevant to their cross-functional responsibilities.
Machine builders and OEMs offering remote support services can gain insight into how their customers are approaching access governance. System integrators and service providers who depend on remote connectivity to customer environments may benefit from understanding the accountability frameworks their clients are adopting.