OT Cybersecurity for IT Professionals: 5 Things OT Wants IT to Know

This guidance article outlines how OT security differs from IT—requiring a different mentality, mission-focused priorities, and unique operational requirements (long uptime, low latency, special redundancy). It recommends a consequence-driven risk model, crown-jewel analysis to prioritize assets, and five critical OT controls: an OT-specific incident response plan, defensible architecture, network monitoring, secure remote access, and prioritized vulnerability management to improve IT–OT collaboration and reduce industrial cyber risk.