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Operational technology

Operational technology (OT) is hardware and software that detects or causes a change, through the direct monitoring and/or control of industrial equipment, assets, processes, and events. The term has become established to demonstrate the technological and functional differences between traditional information technology (IT) systems and industrial…

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Technology

Systems

Protocols

Origins

Security

Common vulnerabilities

Critical infrastructure

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Operational technology

Nodes48
Edges47
Triples87
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.041667
Components1

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Operational technology

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related to Origins · 28
Operational technology → ABB, Engineering Asset Management Athens, Gartner, Gartner Energy, GE, Greece, Hitachi, Honeywell, In May, Industrial, Initially, IoT, IT, IT OT, May, OT, Rockwell, September, Siemens, Spiers
related to Common vulnerabilities · 15
Operational technology → Additionally, Architectural, DNP3, Empirical, Furthermore, Historical, IT, Many, Modbus, Operational, OT, Profibus, Protocol, The, This
related to Technology · 13
Operational technology → DCS, Embedded Systems, ICS, IIoT, In, Industrial Internet, Internet, IoT, PLC, RTU, SCADA, The, Things
related to Security · 9
Operational technology → Approaches, At, Availability, Confidentiality, Integrity, IT, OT, Other, Security
related to Critical infrastructure · 6
Operational technology → Depending, For, IoT, Operational, OT, This
related to Systems · 4
Operational technology → Common, IT, OT, Systems
related to Sectors · 2
Operational technology → Oil, Operational

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systems ot industrial technology control operational security infrastructure monitoring may change term devices become environment protocols critical hardware software iot

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
GEinstance ofGreece outlining the importance of this in the area of asset managementIndustrial technology companies0.80text
Hitachiinstance ofGreece outlining the importance of this in the area of asset managementIndustrial technology companies0.80text
Honeywellinstance ofGreece outlining the importance of this in the area of asset managementIndustrial technology companies0.80text
Siemensinstance ofGreece outlining the importance of this in the area of asset managementIndustrial technology companies0.80text
ABBinstance ofGreece outlining the importance of this in the area of asset managementIndustrial technology companies0.80text
Rockwell are the main providers of OT platformsinstance ofGreece outlining the importance of this in the area of asset managementIndustrial technology companies0.80text
systems either embedded in equipment or added to them for controlinstance ofGreece outlining the importance of this in the area of asset managementIndustrial technology companies0.80text
managementinstance ofGreece outlining the importance of this in the area of asset managementIndustrial technology companies0.80text
monitoringinstance ofGreece outlining the importance of this in the area of asset managementIndustrial technology companies0.80text
the ISA/IEC 62443 seriesinstance ofand adherence to established institutional standards0.80text
Operational technologyrelated to Common vulnerabilitiesThe0.60section
Operational technologyrelated to Common vulnerabilitiesEmpirical0.60section

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