The Digital Factory (Data Flow) - Part 2

Hey there,

Hope you are doing well. This week’s theme is about:

• ✍️ Quick updates on my side and the IT-OT CySEAT course.

• ↪️ Part 2 of The Digital Factory (Hub & Spoke) - Data Lifecycle in 4.0

• 📘 Few security aspects for Data Flow in 4.0 as part of Cybersecurity Program.

• ‼️ How CISO’s role have evolved in the context of OT Cybersecurity.

This is Part 2 of “The Digital Factory” series.

In Part 1 - The Digital Factory (Hub & Spoke) we covered and concluded:

• what is industry 3.0, industry 4.0, digital factory and UNS concepts.

• concluded that these new approaches, challenges the status quo for industry 3.0 and generates a debate around the “questionable” use of Purdue model for network segmentation - whether its dead or alive, reference network architectures and why Security folks are in a fist fight most of the time with solution architects and or automation professionals.

In this Part we’ll briefly touch base on:

• industry 4.0 data flow lifecycle, DataOps and security considerations.

In future Part 3, we’ll cover, the reference architectures, the industry debates and few updates.

Ready? let’s dig in.

Yours truly.

— Yousuf.

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Quick Update:

Its’ been a better start of the year - compared to 2024. The year has begun with doing few focused reviews / consulting / advisory across IT, OT and data privacy, in different manufacturing sectors and critical infrastructure org, so its been a very busy quarter. Interesting to note the similarities and differences in terms of asset owners approach towards cybersecurity.

In this edition, below, I cover a typical industrial data flow lifecycle, something that took me quite a while to uncover and wrap my head around in understanding the concept, so hoping it will save some good time for you.

To know more, please note that the digital factory series and few other previous ones are included as are part of IT-OT CySEAT Training - an upcoming offer. So if you have enjoyed, hope to see you on the wait-list, before its too late.