Knowledge @ Noon - Operational Technology (Māpua)

Presenter: Allan Willoughby, Bluehex

Over the past decade, ordinary business equipment has quietly gone online.

Cameras, access control, alarms, refrigeration, pumps, irrigation, packing lines, building management — all of it now sits on a network, often the same network as your laptops.

This is Operational Technology, or OT, and it usually falls through the gap between the person who installed it and the person who looks after your IT.

In this session Bluehex walks through what OT actually is, why standard IT security advice doesn't quite fit it, and what goes wrong in real New Zealand businesses when it's left alone.

No scare stories - just a clear picture of what you've got, what's worth worrying about, and the handful of practical steps that make the biggest difference.

You don't need a factory floor to get value from this. In the world of IoT & Smart Devices on most networks, it applies to you.

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Allan's Bio
Allan Willoughby is a Business Development Manager at Bluehex, a Kiwi-owned Managed IT, cybersecurity and cloud provider working with businesses across Aotearoa since 2014.