The Most Dangerous Person at the Plant

At manufacturing facilities across the globe, a critical cybersecurity crisis is unfolding in plain sight. The most knowledgeable operational technology (OT) professionals—those who built and maintained the networks connecting legacy industrial systems to modern enterprise infrastructure—are retiring at an unprecedented rate.

The loss of this institutional knowledge walking out the door represents not just operational risk, but a cybersecurity crisis that most organizations are unprepared to address. The question isn’t whether this will impact your organization—it’s whether you’ll be ready when it does.

In this white paper, you’ll learn ways to prepare your organization for this transition and keep your operations uninterrupted, including:

• Three approaches to OT cybersecurity governance

• Budget justification for connecting cybersecurity to core business outcomes

• A talent development strategy for replacing institutional knowledge