Guidepoint sponsors NAC-ISSA August 2025 lunch

Join NAC-ISSA as Guidepoint and Asimily (https://asimily.com) sponsor our August chapter lunch.

Best of Both Worlds: Strategies to Break Down IT/OT Security Silos and Accelerate Innovation

IT and OT were never meant to be the same, but managing them in traditional silos, while thought to be important to reducing the attack surface, is holding organizations back. With digital initiatives like AI and industrial automation fueling demand for new and connected digital systems on the plant floor, OT leaders face mounting pressure to enable innovation without compromising security, safety or uptime. But OT Security programs often stall when the competing requirements of IT, OT, Engineering, and management teams collide causing project delays, increasing the risk of vulnerable systems, and production downtime.  If the right tools and strategies are applied, IT/OT silos can be removed, reducing risk, improving collaboration between IT, OT and the business and accelerating innovation. 

Presenter: Oren Niskin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/orenniskin/) is a Senior Security Engineer in the OT Security Practice at Guidepoint Security. Oren has been in the Operational Technology (OT) field for more than 20 years. Starting in the Nuclear Reactor Department of a US Navy aircraft carrier, Oren has maintained industrial control systems aboard oil rigs, managed the OT cybersecurity program for a global drilling contractor, and successfully guided a wide array of manufacturing and utility organizations as an OT security consultant. Oren holds a Bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering Technology from Thomas Edison University and a Master of Science in Information Security Engineering (MSISE) from the renowned SANS Technical Institute.

We will be back at our usual haunt at The Auburn University Research and Innovation Center in Research Park. Catering will be Rosie’s Mexican Restaurant and the door prize is a Linksys AC-1750 dual-band Wifi 5 Router.