Hi my name is Kristen Poulos I'm the
general manager of the industrial
cybersecurity business at Tripwire and
today I'm going to share a few
strategies for IT OT converging
organizations so the first tip is to
think about formulating teams that have
both members from the IT organization
and the OT organization to come together
and strategize on what needs to be done
and what the goals are it's common for
these two groups to have completely
different priorities and they don't
always see eye-to-eye frankly so by
putting these two groups together in the
same room they can start to share common
goals and have a common mission and the
second tip while it might sound obvious
is for these teams to formulate a plan
and get buy-in from the very top so
often we've seen very well-intentioned
groups with great strategies on how to
gain cybersecurity and improve their
posture in their organizations only to
face the challenges of receiving budget
buy-in so when you go and you get
somebody like a C suite sponsor to be a
part of the project and get to that
sponsorship from the get-go
you're much more likely to have success
in getting your project implemented and
funded on time
