Authentication Mitigates OT Security Risks

Manufacturers are a top target of cybercriminals. Since 2020, there has been a 41% increase in ransomware attacks, and root cause analyses often point to user credentials as a critical attack vector.

As a result, authentication has become an increasingly important mitigation strategy to reduce risk and protect operational technology (OT) devices, such as programmable logic controllers (PLCs), robots, and drives.

Watch this on-demand webinar to learn how Industrial DevOps authentication capabilities and best practices can help you safeguard your industrial controllers from bad actors seeking to gain access and steal or exploit sensitive data. You will gain key insights into:

• Authentication’s role in a robust zero trust identity and access management (IAM) strategy to improve security and control over specific actions performed on critical OT systems
• Integrating centralized identity management with role-based user permissions for easy onboarding, offboarding, and time-based access grants
• Advantages of adopting different authentication methods, such as single sign-on (SSO) that streamlines verification while decreasing the number of attack surfaces and multi-factor authentication (MFA), which reduces the risk of unauthorized access and brute force attacks