The shadow of Operational technologies: A journey into the OT security (WHY2025)

In a context of technological integration, OT is getting more and more a green field for attackers and illegal activities. This phenomena is the natural result of the absence of mutual understanding and collaboration between IT and OT sectors that looking one each other as a totally unrelated entities. In this talk we'll explore some OT technologies trying to understand and highlight some of the most relevant aspects of the OT security and we'll have a look to a couple of real incidents in this The talk is intended to be a resource for whom don't known anything about OT security and want to start to address this topic. It's the result of 5 year of experience in this filed and will include an overview of OT security challenges under technical and management prospective. The aim is to highlight some of the most relevant aspect to consider in this context showing a realistic demo and real example of what we could consider OT incidents. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ about this event: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/ZJSYET/