Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 07 | Page 33

INFOGRAPHIC “ NEARLY ALL COMPANIES HAVE ALREADY BEGUN AT LEAST A BASIC CONVERGENCE OF OT AND IT. ageing hardware on top of an obsolete operating system for a decade or more. But that may be because it only has one job – for example, monitoring a thermostat and then throwing a switch when it reaches a critical temperature. That doesn’t require the latest technology and if it is doing the job it was designed to do, then there is no reason to change it. But because so many of these systems run on proprietary software and use delicate instrumentation, even something as benign as scanning a device for malware can cause it to malfunction. n www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 33