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Experts urge focused, practical steps to secure OT: five controls, clearer federal guidance, supply-chain standards
Summary
Witnesses and members recommended prioritized, implementable measures to protect operational technology: inventory OT assets, apply known critical controls, harmonize federal guidance, fund deployments rather than reinvent tools, and raise vendor security standards.
Witnesses at the House Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing outlined concrete steps they say will materially reduce OT risk if implemented with scale and clarity.
Robert M. Lee of Dragos summarized a set of practical priorities and told members: “First, we must stop treating OT like IT. These systems have different risks and require different defense strategies.” Lee advocated targeted public–private partnerships, streamlined federal guidance and letting the private sector lead on…
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