You Can’t Protect What You Can’t See
There was a time when no one really had to worry about securing their operational technology (OT) devices. You could enjoy all the benefits of connectivity and remote access without the “hassle” of secure passwords or firewalls.
MANAGING VLANS AND BBMDS ON AN OT NETWORK
If you’ve worked within a BACnet/IP environment for a while, you’ve probably encountered or defined your own VLAN. VLANs can be used just like physical BACnet switches to isolate BACnet devices into different segments to reduce broadcast traffic across the entire network or to segment devices based on physical location, function, or security requirements.
THE BENEFITS OF COLLABORATIVE TRAINING
Keeping OT networking skills up-to-date is crucial, and collaborative training sessions with internal OT teams and external systems integrators are a great way to make that happen. These sessions boost knowledge sharing, enhance collaboration, manage risks proactively, and even save on costs.
Guest Post: Cybersecurity for OT Systems?
By Kevin Callahan, Product Evangelist Alerton, and Pook-Ping Yao, CEO at Optigo Networks In late 2019, Alerton hosted a conference for its partners in California. There, Eric O’Neill, a former FBI counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence operative, spoke about cybersecurity in our new age of smart technology and connectivity. A question came from the audience: how do […]
Understanding OptigoVN’s BACnet Diagnostics
By moving from a routine where you wait for something to go wrong to one where regular monitoring and preventative maintenance are part of your program, you increase the chance of never seeing any of these diagnostic flags again.
What is Excessive Read Rate, and How Do You Solve It?
As part of our series on BACnet best practices, we’re highlighting some of the most common diagnostic issues you’re likely to encounter.
This week, we’re focusing on a common BACnet issue, excessive read rate. Let’s look at what it is, why it’s not necessarily a bad thing, and how to identify misconfigured devices to keep your OT network traffic optimized.
After COVID-19: What’s Next for Building Automation
By Pook-Ping Yao, CEO, Optigo Networks What a time it’s been. We’re a few months into what could be a year — or more — of the new normal. I’ve enjoyed seeing more of my wife and kids, eating daily lunches together, and exploring our board game collection. But we’re also learning to cope in a world […]
Foresight is 2020: Predictions for smart buildings and IoT in 2020
You could safely term the last decade of tech innovation “the Smartphone Era.” The first iPhone was released almost 13 years ago, in 2007. Since then, we’ve gone from seeing smartphones as something of a fingerprint-smudged fad to an essential piece of our lifestyle. So, if we’re leaving behind the Smartphone Era, where will we […]
