Operational technology environments face persistent cyber risk driven by legacy systems, long asset life cycles and increasing IT-OT convergence. Security controls introduced late in deployment often struggle to keep pace with evolving threats, while availability, safety and uptime constraints limit traditional remediation approaches. Reducing risk in OT requires shared responsibility across asset owners, original equipment manufacturers and security teams, supported by governance, transparency and long-term planning.

This panel discussion brings together OT and security leaders to address how collaboration between asset owners and OEMs can strengthen secure-by-design adoption across the OT lifecycle.

This insightful discussion will also cover:

• How collaboration, governance and shared accountability enable secure-by-design practices in OT;
• What asset owners should require from OEMs to improve supply chain security, transparency and long-term support;
• How life cycle management and aligned IT-OT road maps support cyber resilience without compromising operations.