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 […]

Securing the Internet of Things

A metal pole with several IoT devices, including weather measuring tools, outside.

Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) are different in a lot of ways, from their design to their maintenance workflows and more. When IT and OT merge, these differences create new challenges for cybersecurity.

Secure Connect Q&A: Bernhard Isler and David Fisher

BACnet Secure Connect (BACnet/SC) with David Fisher and Bernhard Isler

We recently hosted a webinar on BACnet Secure Connect (BACnet/SC) with special guests Bernhard Isler from Siemens and David Fisher from PolarSoft, two main figures behind BACnet/SC. We talked about why BACnet/SC was developed, and how it will affect everyday users. As expected, we got a ton of audience questions, on everything from hubs to […]

Introduction to BACnet Secure Connect

BACnet Secure Connect (BACnet/SC) with David Fisher and Bernhard Isler

Everyone’s growing more aware of the need for cybersecurity. There have been so many cyberattacks in recent years, that it’s almost impossible to ignore. But there’s long been a view that cybersecurity is only an IT issue. Historically, building automation with BACnet has taken a different approach to cybersecurity, leading to confusion. That’s changing in […]

Cybersecurity of Building Automation Systems

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On August 31, 2016, Optigo Networks hosted an online round table to provide for peer exchange on trends in cybersecurity of Building Automation Systems (BAS). Participants included building operations security officials from a major North American government agency, bank, university, and municipality, as well as two volunteers with BACnet International. “Cybersecurity is a hot topic […]