Production is the lifeblood of every discrete manufacturing business, with professionals working to get high-quality product out the door quickly and within limited budgets. Advances in operational technologies and factory floor networking are giving operational technology (OT) professionals powerful tools to boost yields and reduce waste, but such tools cannot be implemented without an understanding of the resulting cybersecurity risk they open up.

Part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce which sits in a low-key building in the quiet town of Rockville, Maryland. The work that has been going on there since the NCCoE opened its doors in 2012 will have a major impact on businesses and organizations throughout the United States – and likely around the world.

To help provide a flavor of the insights and experience that Tripwire makes available, we’re conducting one-on-one interviews with several Tripwire in-house experts. You may have seen some of their bylines in Belden’s industrial blog over the past couple of years, but in this new series we want to provide a more direct glimpse into each expert’s individual industry purview. Each of them will discuss their own personal views on the current state of cyber security in the industrial environment. You’ll learn more about how they have been working with Belden industrial customers to help bolster their network security and optimize their uptime in today’s challenging environment.

I recently had the pleasure of addressing the Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group (ICSJWG) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. They invited us to discuss the importance of monitoring industrial networks for comprehensive visibility, as well as present some views on how best to do so. I think that many OT professionals outside of that room—or anyone concerned with industrial cyber security—would also find some value in the topic, so I’d like to offer up a bit of the flavor of that discussion.

To help provide a flavor of the insights and experience that Tripwire makes available, we’re conducting one-on-one interviews with several Tripwire in-house experts. You may have seen some of their bylines in Belden’s industrial blog over the past couple of years, but in this new series we want to provide a more direct glimpse into each expert’s individual industry purview. Each of them will discuss their own personal views on the current state of cyber security in the industrial environment. You’ll learn more about how they have been working with Belden industrial customers to help bolster their network security and optimize their uptime in today’s challenging environment.