Video transcript: Operational technology cyber security

Sean Sutton: Operational Technology and industrial control systems have become increasingly digitised, a trend that is set to continue.

Whilst this opens a wealth of opportunities to improve productivity, reduce costs and drive innovation, it also significantly increases the cyber risk exposure to these environments.

Cyber attacks on industrial control systems are becoming more frequent, more sophisticated and of course more costly.

But you can’t protect what you don’t know.

Our clients highlight that one of their biggest challenges is limited visibility of their Operational Technology assets and their security weaknesses.

PwC’s Operational Technology security team has extensive experience, deep knowledge across many industries, as well as a cutting edge Operational Technology Cyber Lab.

This combination of experience, insight and technology enables us to help our clients to understand their Operational Technology cyber challenges - by delivering innovative, tech-powered solutions to accelerate their Operational Technology cyber journey.

Our Operational Technology Cyber Lab is supported by multiple security vendor solutions and alliance partners - and features robotic manufacturing lines with advanced sensors and controllers.

Currently, the Lab demonstrates 10 key security controls - and highlights how analytical solutions can help our clients to improve the security of their Operational Technology environments.

Puya Afshar: The Lab’s AI-powered solutions use relatively small samples of network traffic to discover assets, vulnerabilities and security weaknesses in an Operational Technology network.

Using this information, we can help our clients to run technical Proofs of Concept around key areas such as asset and vulnerability identification, monitoring and alerting.

By showcasing different solutions to secure Operational Technology environments, we provide our clients’ leadership teams with the information they need to make strategic investment decisions.

Sean Sutton: Our Operational Technology cyber lab and capability is just one element of PwC’s cyber security team.

Our ability to blend our wider cyber experience and PwC developed cyber assets with leading industry knowledge truly enables us to help our clients to manage their cyber risks.

As cyber threats continue to evolve, PwC will keep innovating to deliver solutions that help our clients stay ahead of cyber risks.