SIEMENS ENERGY & TENABLE
We examine the partnership between Siemens and Tenable amid the companies ’ ongoing digital transformation journeys
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T he global pandemic in 2020 may have unleashed a host of new challenges for the energy sector – but it also revealed and vastly accelerated the existing trends already upending how companies manage and defend their critical energy assets , particularly when converging IT and OT operations . Nowhere is that moving faster than in Asia .
The sudden shift to remote work forced by the pandemic has driven organisations to adopt remote access technologies overnight as opposed to what would have normally taken years . This has resulted in an expanded digital attack surface and introduced thousands of potentially vulnerable new connections to critical energy assets .
“ The energy sector is undergoing IT / OT convergence at an unprecedented rate driven by business demands for increased efficiencies and rapid adaptation to changing customer requirements . This all comes at a time when connectivity has become essential to continue operations as global and local travel has come to an abrupt halt ,” says Mex Martinot , Vice President and Head of
FEBRUARY 2021