In Sync - The Syntonous Blog

In my last post I talked about the emergence of the Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) in the Operational Technology world.  Coincidentally, the topic has come up in a couple of discussions I’ve been involved in lately… Perhaps it’s not so coincidental – maybe ZTA, or at least the buzzword, is rapidly entering into the OT

The other day I tweeted out a link to an article I saw come through Twitter that extolled the virtues of Zero Trust in the Operational Technology environment. In short, Zero Trust Architecture is a security approach that relies on mutual authentication and fine granularity of permission to protect data and services. Essentially, transactions are

The other day some utility industry colleagues and I discussed IT/OT convergence. The discussion included an exchange on the future of containers in the Operational Technology (OT) environment. I thought the topic would make for a good blog post.  First, let’s define what we mean by the term “container.” In the information technology

Since this is the very first post of this blog, I thought I would address the question of what Operational Technology (OT) is, since OT is at the core of what Syntonous is about.  Gartner defines OT as:  “…hardware and software that detects or causes a change, through the direct monitoring and/or control of industrial