Standardizing Cybersecurity: The Need For Interoperability
Solutions Review, April, 7th 2023
Juan Vargas, Cybersecurity and Engineering Consultant, makes a case for the need to standardize cybersecurity through interoperability.
After 20 years of operating critical national infrastructure programs, power companies have begun to understand and simplify them. Today, many of the largest utilities work with vendors to design and implement their cybersecurity programs. Looking ahead, companies see their programs' future as converging into a single cybersecurity strategy for the entire corporation, requiring software developers to agree to some interoperability standard that doesn't exist, yet is crucial to merging IT and OT operations.