It was not that long ago when one of the measures of a company’s maturity was whether it had its own data center or not. In some cases, the data center occupied one or two floors in the company’s facility while in others, the data center may have sprawled across several locations for full redundancy.
In a relatively short period of time, we’ve evolved to the point where the true measure of an organization’s IT maturity is whether or not it has migrated to the cloud. With more and more IT infrastructure becoming virtual, dedicated physical data centers are becoming a relic of the past and for good reason.
Cloud technology has afforded organizations many benefits, not only in terms of cost savings for procuring and managing equipment, but also in terms of becoming more nimble and efficient. Spinning up a new virtual machine or deploying a new service or technology can literally take hours compared to weeks or months under the old data center scenario which typically involved dedicating personnel to new initiatives for extended periods of time. It’s no wonder that organizations have phased out new data center projects in favor of an accelerated journey to the cloud.
When it comes to industrial control systems (ICS) or OT environments, the notion of the cloud is still new. In fact, these environments have always been very segregated from the rest of the IT infrastructure, largely as a security measure. The de-facto standard of air-gapping OT environments kept them secure because it was extremely hard to attack infrastructures that could not be reached.
However, with the increasing convergence of IT and OT, and the advent of new ..
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