WEBINAR: OT operational resilience in an age of AI threats

Dave Jennings explains where hidden risk lives on the plant floor—and the production-safe steps organizations can take to reduce it.

You can’t defend what you can’t see.

“It’s always worked” is the most expensive sentence in manufacturing.

Legacy controls. Undocumented workarounds. Vendor connections added one at a time over the years. Most plants have no current picture of what’s actually on their floor, how it’s connected, or where it’s exposed. The system fulfills its requirements—until someone finally looks at it.

Meanwhile, the threat landscape has changed. Manufacturing is now a priority target, and AI is lowering the skill required to disrupt operational technology (OT) environments. The gap between what plants are defending and what’s actually there is widening fast.

In this session, Dave Jennings walks through:

The “it’s always worked” patterns that quietly accumulate risk in every plant
What we actually find when we assess OT environments—and what it costs clients when no one looked sooner
How to gain real visibility into your OT environment without touching production
What a practical, fundable path forward looks like

Salas O’Brien helps manufacturers build resilience for OT environments. Want to talk about your environment? Reach out to [email protected].

Or download our OT Cybersecurity Self-Assessment to get started on your own.

Contributors

Dave Jennings, PE, CISA

Dave Jennings is an industrial cybersecurity consultant who works closely with clients to improve and innovate their industrial controls systems (ICS). His main optimization areas of focus are: SCADA controls and visualization, ICS networking, cybersecurity, and data collection and reporting. Dave provides consulting and audits. He serves as an Associate Vice President at Salas O’Brien. Contact him at [email protected].

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