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"Operational Technology and Cybersecurity"
Author: Levi M. Tully, LEED AP BD+C, PMP
Published In: Facilities Manager
Date: September/October 2022

Like IT systems, building automation systems create, process, and store electronic data. When a building automation system integrates with IT systems and infrastructure to monitor and manipulate physical processes, it becomes an OT system. Unauthorized access to OT systems and data is exploited with increasing frequency in order to cause tenant discomfort, interrupt facility operations, and damage equipment or facilities. It can also pose significant risk to an organization’s reputation. Just as we protect IT assets from unauthorized access using cybersecurity, OT systems should provide protection commensurate with the security controls already established in the IT domain.

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