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OT supply chains are often treated as external dependencies 🔗 But in industrial environments, they are part of the risk landscape.…
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OT supply chains are often treated as external dependencies 🔗
But in industrial environments, they are part of the risk landscape.
Vendors.
Integrators.
Remote access providers.
Maintenance partners.
Technology suppliers.
Legacy components.
Third-party support teams.
Each of them can influence the resilience of your operations ⚙️
The challenge is that many organisations do not have a clear view of how these dependencies connect to their critical OT assets.
🔍 And without that visibility, it becomes difficult to answer essential questions :
Who has access ?
Which systems depend on which supplier ?
What happens if a partner is compromised ?
Which third parties are involved in incident response ?
Where does operational exposure really begin ?
In OT security, understanding your own environment is no longer enough.
You also need to understand the ecosystem around it.
Because the supply chain is not outside your security perimeter.
It is part of it 🛡️
#OTSecurity #IndustrialCybersecurity #SupplyChainSecurity #OperationalResilience
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