INFOGRAPHIC
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NEARLY ALL
COMPANIES HAVE ALREADY
BEGUN AT LEAST A BASIC
CONVERGENCE OF OT AND IT.
ageing hardware on top of an obsolete operating system for a
decade or more. But that may be because it only has one job – for
example, monitoring a thermostat and then throwing a switch
when it reaches a critical temperature. That doesn’t require the
latest technology and if it is doing the job it was designed to
do, then there is no reason to change it. But because so many
of these systems run on proprietary software and use delicate
instrumentation, even something as benign as scanning a device
for malware can cause it to malfunction. n
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