OT security teams face constant tension between protecting operations and maintaining output. Safety provides common ground - everyone understands preventing injuries and deaths - but technology pushes toward risky conveniences like remote HMI tablets that could start conveyor belts without visual confirmation. Meanwhile, executives want different information: individual contributors care about tools, managers need capabilities, and senior leaders demand outcomes, not vulnerability counts.

Success requires translating cyber risk into business terms operations teams already understand: downtime, preventative maintenance and output loss. A plant manager measuring productivity doesn't want vulnerability scores; they want to know whether scheduled maintenance now prevents unscheduled shutdowns later.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to determine adequate security levels by weighing remediation costs against potential downtime and output loss;
• Techniques to communicate risk in operational terms;
• Why safety becomes the universal language that aligns IT security teams with OT operations across manufacturing organizations.