Navigating Identity Risk in Converged Critical Infrastructure
In the world of Industry 4.0, the traditional “air-gap” between Information Technology and Operational Technology is a relic of the past. As data flows from the factory floor to the cloud, identity has emerged as the primary risk factor across these connected environments.
“Attackers don’t approach environments in silos. They don’t see ‘IT’ or ‘OT’—they see identity paths. Movement across environments is a matter of opportunity, not effort.”
A Strategic Maturity Model for CISOs
Maturity in converged security is less about the tools you buy and more about the visibility you maintain. Focus on three key markers:
- Visibility: Discovering all identities, including service accounts and IIoT machine IDs.
- Context: Understanding which identities create real business risk for safety and availability.
- Accountability: Aligning IT and OT teams under a shared risk narrative.
5 Ways to Protect Critical Infrastructure
- Continuous Discovery: Identify every identity, from human users to hardcoded secrets in legacy controllers.
- Context-Based Prioritization: Focus on the credentials that bridge corporate IT and operational systems.
- Control Extension: Apply existing IT protections, like MFA, to remote OT access points.
- Privileged Access Management: Remove implicit trust; ensure all high-level access is intentional and time-bound.
- Behavioral Monitoring: Observe how identities are actually used to detect drift and unauthorized movement.
About Segura®
Segura® strive to ensure the sovereignty of companies over actions and privileged information. To this end, we work against data theft through traceability of administrator actions on networks, servers, databases and a multitude of devices. In addition, we pursue compliance with auditing requirements and the most demanding standards, including PCI DSS, Sarbanes-Oxley, ISO 27001 and HIPAA.
About Version 2 Limited
Version 2 Digital is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company distributes a wide range of IT products across various areas including cyber security, cloud, data protection, end points, infrastructures, system monitoring, storage, networking, business productivity and communication products.
Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, different vertical industries, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.