Andreas Staffen

“Is IT Security slowing down innovation speed?”

Starting from the fundamental differences between the IT and the OT world, Christian Franzen and Andreas Staffen explain in his keynote, which implications the fusion of these worlds have for cyber-attacks.

Previously, IT and OT networks and their separate protocols did not need to communicate directly with each other. However, close collaboration is essential today to leverage innovative applications. To be successful, both IT and OT need access to digitalized and highly connected data consequently putting them in higher risk of cyber-attacks. The core of the presentation is to shed light on various dimensions of how this merger can be carried out while maintaining the highest cyber security standards. The balance between operational speed, risk management and high awareness of cyber security to close cultural differences is an essential element to manage industrial innovation projects without losing sight of security issues.

With numerous practical examples, Christian Franzen and Andreas Staffen impressively explain how challenges can be specifically identified and solved.