As OT and IoT systems become increasingly connected, securing industrial networks requires moving beyond traditional defenses toward ephemeral, end-to-end security models. Organizations face mounting pressure from legacy systems, cultural friction between IT and OT teams, and emerging quantum computing threats that can compromise standard public key encryption. Simply implementing firewalls and network segmentation is no longer sufficient when long-lived credentials and persistent connections create extended attack windows for ransomware and advanced threats.

This session, led by Massimo Nardone of SSH Communications Security, explores practical approaches to industrial cybersecurity:

• Zero trust architecture implementation with agentless secure access and privileged access management for OT environments;
• Quantum-safe encryption strategies to protect long life cycle industrial assets from emerging cryptographic threats;
• Alignment frameworks bridging IEC 62443 and NIS2 requirements through unified governance models.