Zero Trust in OT: Micro-Segmentation That Engineers Can Maintain
- October 29, 2025
Zero Trust in OT: Micro-Segmentation That Engineers Can Maintain Zero Trust is reshaping how industrial networks are secured. Instead of one trus...
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Identities for Machines: Certificates, TPMs, and Rotate at Scale
- October 29, 2025
Identities for Machines: Certificates, TPMs, and Rotate at Scale In a Zero Trust OT network, every node — from PLC to gateway — must...
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Coordinated Disclosure with Vendors: How to Do It Right
- October 29, 2025
Coordinated Disclosure with Vendors: How to Do It Right When you find a vulnerability in an industrial product, disclosure is not just an ethical...
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Asset Inventories That Stay Up-to-Date in OT
- October 29, 2025
Asset Inventories That Stay Up-to-Date in OT You can’t secure what you don’t know exists. In operational technology (OT), asset inven...
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Prioritizing Patches in OT: Risk, Windows, and Rollback
- October 29, 2025
Prioritizing Patches in OT: Risk, Windows, and Rollback Patching in OT is never “just apply and reboot.” Every update must balance vu...
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Vuln Scanning without Breaking the Plant: Safe Methods
- October 29, 2025
Vuln Scanning without Breaking the Plant: Safe Methods Running traditional vulnerability scans in OT can cause communication loss, device resets,...
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SBOMs for PLCs and HMIs: What’s Realistically Possible
- October 29, 2025
SBOMs for PLCs and HMIs: What’s Realistically Possible The Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is becoming a cornerstone of cybersecurity tra...
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TSN + OPC UA PubSub: Reference Architectures
- October 29, 2025
TSN + OPC UA PubSub: Reference Architectures The future of industrial Ethernet lies in the combination of TSN for determinism and OPC UA PubSub f...
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Lab Testing TSN: Tooling, Traffic, and KPIs
- October 29, 2025
Lab Testing TSN: Tooling, Traffic, and KPIs Before deploying Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) in production, engineers must validate timing, inter...
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Migrating Motion Control to TSN: A Stepwise Plan
- October 29, 2025
Migrating Motion Control to TSN: A Stepwise Plan Moving from proprietary motion networks (EtherCAT, SERCOS, PROFINET IRT) to TSN-based motion con...
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Determinism over Ethernet: What TSN Guarantees (and Doesn’t)
- October 29, 2025
Determinism over Ethernet: What TSN Guarantees (and Doesn’t) TSN brings determinism to Ethernet — but not magic. Engineers must under...
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TSN 101 for Controls Engineers: Time Sync and Queues
- October 29, 2025
TSN 101 for Controls Engineers: Time Sync and Queues Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) extends standard Ethernet to deliver deterministic communica...
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Testing Python Pipelines in a Simulated Plant
- October 29, 2025
Testing Python Pipelines in a Simulated Plant Before deploying Python in live production, engineers should validate every data pipeline in a digi...
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When to Keep Python Off the Line: Risk-Based Rules
- October 29, 2025
When to Keep Python Off the Line: Risk-Based Rules Python is flexible, powerful, and easy to deploy — but that same flexibility makes it ri...
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Scheduling Data Jobs in OT: Cron, MQTT, and Triggers
- October 29, 2025
Scheduling Data Jobs in OT: Cron, MQTT, and Triggers Automation engineers increasingly run data scripts — for logging, analytics, or AI inf...
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Pandas + Historians: Fast Root-Cause Analysis
- October 29, 2025
Pandas + Historians: Fast Root-Cause Analysis Traditional historians are great at storing process data — but not always at analyzing it. By...
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Python Next to PLCs: Safety, Sandboxing, and IPC
- October 29, 2025
Python Next to PLCs: Safety, Sandboxing, and IPC Python is rapidly entering the factory floor — powering analytics, dashboards, and mainten...
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Unit Testing for PLC Logic: Yes, It’s Possible
- October 29, 2025
Unit Testing for PLC Logic: Yes, It’s Possible Software testing has long been part of IT, but OT engineers are catching up. With modern PLC...
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Version Control for PLC Projects: Git without the Pain
- October 29, 2025
Version Control for PLC Projects: Git without the Pain Version control has long been standard in IT — but only recently practical in OT. Th...
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Open PLCs and Linux-Based Controllers: Pros and Cons
- October 29, 2025
Open PLCs and Linux-Based Controllers: Pros and Cons Industrial control is evolving beyond proprietary rack PLCs. A new wave of open, Linux-based...
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