IT/OT Convergence – A success Story
Session Abstract:
Digitalizing a process or an entire enterprise is too important to get wrong. Furthermore, poorly implemented deployments can expose an organization to cyber vulnerability. It is vital to marshal the expertise of professionals from the spheres of OT and IT to assure the best possible system is put into place. This presentation will look at how one company’s OT and IT professionals collaborated to build a system that is more flexible, more stable, more scalable, and more secure than would have been achieved without the intentional teamwork. Hear directly from the practitioners how they did it.
Speakers:
David Vavra works on the US Web Services team as a DevOps Engineer. My main role is to support the development and continuous improvement of the global Phoenix Contact corporate website. I provide direct support for the two US based development teams who are mainly responsible for Security and Customer interaction on the website.
Main duties include:
– Maintaining AWS infrastructure through infrastructure as code best practices
– Updating + improving GitLab CI/CD pipelines
– Global Okta administrator for User Management and Security implementations
– Support developers with Docker, Maven, NPM, etc.
Josh Krug has been with Phoenix Contact for nearly 7 years. I provide engineering & consulting for sales and customers within Phoenix Contact’s automation portfolio.
My main responsibilities include:
Providing industrial application design, engineering and support for projects using automation products
Developing ‘proof of concept’ or pilot applications for automation industry
Providing post-sale on site service or support as required to support new or existing systems and products