Session Abstract:
With the rise of Industry 4.0 deployments, the deeper integration between IT, cloud, and industrial networks heightens the risk of cyber threats.
Attack surfaces go unnoticed when there is a lack of complete visibility into the assets connected in the operational environments. In such a scenario, how can you ensure the continuity, resilience, and safety of the industrial operations?
As a first step to protect industrial assets, OT teams must gain complete visibility into connected assets, traffic flows, and the overall OT security posture. Second, they must define and enforce the right cybersecurity policies. Finally, continued monitoring of the infrastructure’s health can help ensure business continuity, limit the spread of malware, and respond to any breaches early. The converged solution must be simple to operate at scale for both IT and OT. Extending IT security to OT can make it easier to manage risks and enforce security policies globally.
Industrial security also faces higher risk when staff, contractors, or machine vendors must access OT assets, especially those that might be geographically distributed, for maintenance or monitoring. In these cases, a secure remote access methodology based on zero-trust network access (ZTNA) principles must be defined to guard against unauthorized access. ZTNA can help you move from all-or-nothing VPNs.
Join this session in the IoT Grand Slam 2023 to dive into the solutions that can bring unprecedented scale and simplicity to industrial security.
Speaker:
With a Master of Technology in Networks and Networked Systems, Richa Daga is as technical as you can get. She is working as a Software Engineer at Cisco and has vast work experience in the telecom and optical networking domain. Prior to this, she worked at Ciena and has developed cutting-edge products supporting data traffic up to terabits of speed. Her passion lies in technologies and chipsets that connect the world.
Richa won the Global Conference Speaker of the Year Award at the WomenTech’22 Conference across multiple countries and was also bestowed with the HerRising Women Professionals Award’23. Richa is a global technical speaker at various industry platforms such as the international IEEE Smart Cities Week, Global Grace Hopper Conference, ClueCon Conference, SubOptic Conference, Women Who Code Conference, Women In Telco Conference, and IEEE Woman in Engineering International Leadership Conference.
Richa spearheads diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and is the India Leader of the Women in Science and Engineering, (WISE) Community of Cisco. She also served as the chairperson of the IEEE Women in Engineering group of her alma mater. Richa is a technical author at global Enterprise Viewpoint Publication, IEEE Newsletter for their Smart Cities special edition, and is the author of an Amazon best-seller book – The Butterfly Effect, in which she is featured as a global woman changemaker.
Richa believes in investing in knowledge and sharing it with other technical communities globally. She is based out of New Delhi, India.
