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Third-Party OT Access in Automotive Plants, How to Isolate Each Supplier Without Stopping Production
On an automotive line that several outside suppliers built and now service, each machine builder, integrator or equipment maker needs to reach its own machines and nothing else. Securing that third-party OT access, the supplier connections into the plant’s…
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Industrial PC vs PLC and Which Plant-Floor Jobs Belong on Each
A PLC (programmable logic controller) is a control system that reads inputs, runs its logic and writes outputs in a repeating cycle. An industrial PC (IPC) is a plant-floor computer for the work around that loop. Operator screens and data collection fit there, so…
OT Ransomware in Manufacturing and How to Keep the Line Running
Black Kite’s 2026 manufacturing ransomware report counted 1,183 publicly disclosed incidents in the sector from January 1 to July 29, 2026. That already tops Black Kite’s full-year totals for 2023 and for 2024. Same-period counts ran 505 in 2023, 593 in…
NERC CIP Compliance for OT Cybersecurity – What Energy Sector Operators Need to Know
A substation control network does not get a maintenance window because an auditor is coming. That tension sits underneath every conversation about NERC CIP compliance in the energy sector. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical…
OT Network Segmentation – How to Separate OT From IT Without Stopping Production
Manufacturing accounted for 27.7% of all cyberattacks tracked worldwide in 2025, making it the most targeted industry for the fifth consecutive year, according to IBM’s X-Force threat intelligence team. The concern for manufacturers is not just what happens…
Industrial PC Manufacturers in the USA and How to Tell Them Apart
What does “Made in USA” actually mean when it comes to industrial computers? The FTC uses computers to illustrate an important point: where a product is assembled is only part of the story. A system built in a U.S. facility can still contain significant…
IEC 62443 Explained – What Industrial Manufacturers Need to Know About the OT Security Standard
Fourteen documents carry the IEC 62443 name. An engineer who reads all of them still will not know which ones are theirs, and that is where most industrial cybersecurity programs stall. The technical content is readable. Working out which obligations land on your…
Fanless Industrial PC – What It Is, Why It Matters, and When You Need One
A fan is the single moving part standing between your industrial computer and a maintenance call it didn’t need to have. On a clean office desk, that’s a minor inconvenience. On a plant floor coated in flour dust, cutting fluid, or metal shavings,…
Water Utility Cyberattacks Are a Warning: Secure OT Before It’s Too Late
OT vs IT Cybersecurity – Why Industrial Networks Need Hardware-Native Protection
OT vs IT cybersecurity gets treated as the same discipline far too often, and that mismatch is exactly why so many well-intentioned security rollouts stall out or, worse, shut down a production line they were supposed to protect. Operational technology (OT), the…
What Is ICS Security? Protecting Industrial Control Systems From Modern Threats
An industrial control system, or ICS, was built to do one job well. That job is keeping a physical process running safely and without interruption. For most of the last fifty years, that job had nothing to do with networking, and neither did ICS security. The…
What Is an Industrial PC? How Plant-Floor Computers Differ From Standard Hardware
An industrial PC is built to survive exactly what kills a standard desktop tower on a plant floor. Dust cakes the intake fan until it seizes. A forklift’s vibration works a memory module loose. A summer without air conditioning pushes the CPU past its rated…
