OT Security Workshop
Most organizations that run industrial operations cannot say with confidence what is connected to their plant, grid, field or clinical networks, how those assets talk to each other or how exposed they are. PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, robotics, medical devices and legacy controllers often sit on flat networks with little separation from enterprise IT, governed by policies that are outdated, unpublished or applied differently at every site. The result is real risk to uptime, safety, compliance and the business.
The World Wide Technology (WWT) OT/IoT Security Workshop is a focused, one-to-two-day working session that brings IT and OT leaders into the same room to turn that uncertainty into a clear plan. Facilitated by WWT OT security experts, the workshop combines business and technical discussion, structured exercises and peer benchmarking. It measures the current state against IEC 62443, NIST CSF, along with industry-specific standards such as NERC CIP, API 1164 and the Purdue Reference Model for ICS segmentation.
The workshop is the starting point of a proven path: discovery, the on-site workshop, a parallel evaluation of visibility tools in the WWT OT/IoT Lab, a pilot at selected sites and a business case to scale across the enterprise. Participants leave with a documented baseline, prioritized gaps, quick wins, named owners and 30-day actions. Within weeks, WWT follows with an executive-ready roadmap and a scoped proposal (LoE, RoM and/or SoW) so teams can move from insight to execution fast.
What to Expect
- A focused 1–2 day session, on-site, with business and technical tracks and a clear agenda from welcome to workstream alignment.
- Pre-planning and kick-off, including stakeholder identification, scope and site selection, business objective alignment and review of existing designs and documents.
- Facilitated, interactive exercises, such as current-state mapping, efficiency vs. resiliency polarity mapping, a cultural risk heatmap and a "Three Metrics" business-case exercise.
- Honest IT/OT convergence discussion that surfaces fragmentation in ownership, decisions and tooling across facilities.
- Practical technical deep dives on vulnerability management for unpatchable assets, identity and access blind spots, segmentation, secure remote access and OT monitoring.
- Reference architectures, including the Purdue Model, security controls by level and OT visibility and monitoring use cases.
- Peer benchmarking that shows where you stand compared with similar organizations and what others are doing.
- A close focused on action: a Now / Next / Someday plan with named owners and 30-day actions.
- Simple session norms: stay engaged, no multitasking, keep an open environment, capture issues and take ownership.
- Documented workshop objectives and working norms
- Facility-by-facility current-state map and ranked list of top IT/OT convergence gaps
- Polarity map and agreed principle for balancing efficiency and resiliency
- Cultural risk heatmap and agreed cultural levers
- 3–5 prioritized business cases, each with three credible metrics
Goals & Objectives
- Establish a current-state baseline of OT architecture, assets, protocols and communication flows.
- Assess current security capabilities for in-scope OT assets across people, process and technology.
- Align the risk model with ICS-specific requirements and set risk criteria and thresholds.
- Identify and prioritize gaps by risk likelihood and business impact (downtime, safety, compliance, patient or public safety).
- Validate and align an ICS/OT security strategy and define the desired future state.
- Build the business case by translating OT security gaps into language executives and finance trust.
- Identify quick wins that reduce risk right away, such as secure remote access and critical segmentation.
- Strengthen IT/OT collaboration, including an IT/OT liaison role, team roles, skills and culture.
- Prioritize core projects: dynamic asset inventory, vulnerability management, network segmentation and an OT/IoT security program roadmap.
- Link strategy to execution with named workstreams, owners, timelines and documentation requirements.
Benefits
- Speed to clarity. A documented baseline, prioritized risks and a roadmap delivered in days, not quarters.
- Protected uptime and safety. Clear steps to separate enterprise and OT networks so IT incidents and ransomware cannot halt operations.
- Full visibility. A clear view of assets, flows, protocols, vulnerabilities and threats, and a baseline for anomaly detection.
- Compliance confidence. Gaps mapped to IEC, NIST, ISO and industry regulations, with evidence that holds up in audits.
- Executive alignment and funding. Credible business cases and ROI language for budget and capital planning.
- Stronger IT/OT partnership. Shared vocabulary, agreed trade-offs and a plan to address cultural blockers.
- Immediate risk reduction. Quick wins you can act on now while the longer program takes shape.
- A scalable model. A repeatable pilot-then-scale approach that extends across plants, sites or facilities.
- Industry perspective. Benchmarking and WWT OT/IoT Lab evaluations that de-risk tool and vendor decisions.