March 21, 2019

Grantek has released a new video. Cybersecurity: Missed Opportunities when Implementing Industrial Control Systems is now available by clicking here. This video features Chris Hamilton, Grantek’s Director of IT/OT and Cybersecurity.

This video is the next installment of Thought Leadership in Cybersecurity and will cover the latest trends to secure your manufacturing operations. The video provides viewers with tangible insights and information to improve operations.

Takeaways will include:

• Missed Opportunity 1: When performing a network upgrade
• Missed Opportunity 2: Promoting cybersecurity awareness and good cyber-citizenship within other automation and controls projects
• Missed Opportunity 3: Including cybersecurity as a key tenant of your yearly planning activities
• Missed Opportunity 4: Proactively pursuing “secure by design” principals and promoting a security culture across departments

About the Presenter: Chris Hamilton, Director of IT/OT and Cybersecurity at Grantek, started his professional career in web design, databases, and server management with a focus in security at every level, but grew up around process flow and P&IDs in Biochemical Pharmaceuticals. In his roles at Grantek he has worked as a controls engineer, a systems engineer and an IT/OT consultant to bridge the gap between IT and Controls teams in order to help clients realize more efficient operations, leverage or implement standardized systems and most importantly understand the line between IT and OT and how it can and will shift with emerging technology and industry changes. He specifically focuses on the OT side today providing network assessments and road mapping a migration plan for a client’s legacy or inefficient hardware as part of a client provided, or jointly developed OSA (Manufacturing Operations Systems Architecture).