PGP Glass tackles OT, IoT convergence

“However we’re in manufacturing,” he says. “We’ve manufacturing engineering techniques, we now have SCADA [supervisory control and data acquisition], we now have PLCs [programmable logic controllers], we now have CNCs [computer numerical controllers]. These techniques weren’t designed from the safety standpoint.”

These techniques have been, prior to now, not sometimes uncovered to the sort of threats that IT techniques have been uncovered to, he says. However that every one modified with Trade 4.0.

“In different industries, if one thing is compromised, they could simply swap it off,” Jha says. However manufacturing is PGP Glass’s core enterprise. These industrial machines can’t simply be switched off. “We might nonetheless wish to preserve it on as a result of that’s what’s core for us,” he says. “That’s what’s core for our survival.”

At this level, PGP Glass was capable of have good visibility into its IT techniques, however nothing carefully monitoring the safety of the manufacturing techniques. “When you can’t see one thing, you can’t management it,” Jha says.

There have been different safety techniques in place that lined the corporate’s perimeter, however nothing granular. Then, 4 years in the past, after the acquisition by Blackstone, PGP Glass needed to migrate all its techniques anyway. “We needed to get ourselves carved out from the earlier enterprise and needed to get ourselves segregated and construct a wholly new IT panorama,” says Jha.

That creates a possibility to begin from scratch with cybersecurity, as properly. “We picked an industry-leading framework and began getting ourselves aligned,” he says.