Cyber Resilience Across IT and OT: Keep Operations Running

How security, IT and operations leaders can contain IT/OT breach risk across connected operational environments

As organisations in manufacturing, retail, energy and utilities, transport and logistics, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, and critical infrastructure accelerate digital transformation, connect operational technology environments and modernise industrial systems, the cyber attack surface is expanding rapidly. Legacy equipment, unmanaged devices, embedded firmware and safety-critical control systems are increasingly connected to wider IT environments, creating complexity that traditional security approaches were not designed to address.

 

For any organisation that depends on physical operations, this creates a significant challenge. Cybersecurity is no longer simply about protecting systems and data. It is increasingly about keeping operations running, protecting people and ensuring resilience when disruption occurs. At the same time, ransomware, zero-day vulnerabilities and AI-enabled attackers are increasing the speed and sophistication of threats facing both IT and OT environments.

 

As a result, security and operations leaders are re-evaluating how they protect increasingly interconnected environments, moving beyond traditional perimeter-based approaches towards greater visibility, segmentation and policy-led containment. Understanding which systems are communicating, controlling how they interact and limiting lateral movement can help organisations contain inevitable breaches before they become organisation-wide incidents.

 

Join us to network with peers from across industrial and operationally critical sectors and gain practical insights into how leaders are strengthening cyber resilience across IT and OT while protecting safety, availability and business continuity. This is an exclusive event and seat numbers are very limited, so apply for your place now.

 

The topics we will explore

 

During the meeting, we will focus on questions such as:

• How should organisations rethink cyber security as IT, OT and operational environments become increasingly connected?
• How can organisations gain greater visibility into what is communicating across complex IT and OT environments?
• What are the practical challenges of securing legacy equipment, unmanaged devices and safety-critical operational systems?
• How can segmentation and policy-led containment help prevent attackers moving laterally through connected operational environments?
• What role can managed security services play in helping organisations overcome skills and resource constraints while strengthening security and resilience across complex IT and OT environments?
• How should organisations balance cyber security controls with the availability, performance and safety requirements of operational systems?
• What capabilities are needed to maintain operational resilience and cyber continuity when a breach or disruption inevitably occurs?

Who is invited?

 

This discussion over dinner is designed for senior information security, cyber security, technology, operational technology and operations leaders in manufacturing and other asset-intensive or operationally critical sectors who are responsible for cyber resilience, IT and OT security, industrial technology and operational continuity. Attendees include Chief Information Security Officers, Chief Information Officers, Chief Technology Officers, Directors of Information Security, Heads of Cyber Security, Heads of OT Security, Operations and Engineering Directors, and other senior security and technology decision-makers.

 

Be one of 12 senior professionals attending this event in central London. An executive dinner for senior security, IT and manufacturing leaders responsible for OT risk.

 

For any enquiries, please contact Mergim Begolli on 0208349 6458 or email m.begolli@business-reporter.com.

 

Sponsored dinner is brought to you by Illumio and BT and is only for senior executives, as mentioned above. Registrations of consultants, solution providers or other sellers to this market won’t be accepted. To be eligible, you must be employed by an end-user organisations with responsibility for information security, cyber security, operational technology or manufacturing technology.

 

This event is free of charge to attend.

 

When you register, we will ask you for your corporate email address, which we will share only with the event sponsors. See our privacy policy.