There are plenty of historic and technological reasons why utilities’ industrial networks have been disconnected from their enterprise IT networks. As utilities continue to plan for and invest in new infrastructure for the coming decades, they have a critical opportunity to transform their networks.
Across the industry, the goal is to future-proof a utility’s infrastructure – both in terms of how it can adapt and scale to meet changing needs and how it can be secured against the growing array of cyber threats. Cyberattacks were not a concern when the legacy infrastructure was designed and deployed.