When a critical vulnerability alert lands in a traditional IT environment, it’s rarely a cause for panic regarding the operational continuity of the business. The affected laptops, servers, and applications can be identified quickly, and a good team can catalogue and patch them within hours if it’s urgent. The priorities are clear, and there’s very little guesswork involved.
Now picture the same alert landing across a hospital's imaging equipment, a factory floor's control systems, or a building's HVAC network. These cyber-physical systems (CPS), the connected devices that run physical operations rather than just processing data, sit at the sharp end of IT and OT (operational technology) convergence.
