Cisco solutions for fostering IT/OT partnership

Modernize and secure your industrial operations through IT

Enhance productivity and efficiency by using IT networking proficiencies in OT. Nurture the IT/OT partnership to bolster security, transform operations, and advance industrial AI.

Elevate OT with IT proficiencies to meet changing needs of industry

Boost industrial efficiency and prepare for the future with a network that's purpose-built for OT and that uses leading IT technologies in security, management, and scalability.

Standardize on mainstream technologies

Lower your infrastructure costs and accelerate innovation with an industrial network that IT teams already know how to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot.

Build a more adaptive network

Respond faster to business needs with automated onboarding and rapid reconfigurations. Prevent performance bottlenecks while saving time and reducing error frequency.

Unite, streamline, and protect

Bring advanced security to industrial operations and better protect the entire organization with solutions that understand OT and unify threat detection and remediation.

Prepare for a future of AI

Improve operations with a deterministic, resilient, and low-latency secure network as you lay the foundation for data-driven decision making, more software control, and industrial AI.

Discover products and solutions for applying IT expertise to OT

Industrial Ethernet switches

Strengthen the IT/OT partnership with rugged switches that run the same operating system and use the same management tools as IT does but that are purpose-built for OT.

Industrial routers

Enable reliable, scalable, and secure field operations with modular routers that use the advanced SD-WAN technologies IT has been relying on for years.

Industrial wireless

Support both IT and OT with a unified wireless infrastructure that meets the needs of both business operations and industrial control systems.

Cisco Software-Defined Access

Deploy a consistent, scalable, and secure network architecture for both IT and OT. Enable secure data flows between the two domains through unified zero-trust security policy.

Cisco Industrial Threat Defense

Extend your IT security tools to OT to implement cybersecurity best practices, promote regulatory compliance, and better defend against cyberthreats.

Cisco Secure Firewall

Protect your organization with clear IT/OT boundaries. Detect encrypted and zero-day threats. Enforce macrosegmentation policies to protect operations.

Cisco Cyber Vision

Gain visibility into your OT assets, their behaviors, and your security posture. Implement segmentation that will not disrupt production.

Cisco Secure Equipment Access

Secure remote access to your OT assets with a zero-trust solution that is simple to deploy at scale and is built for the needs of your operations team.

Cisco Identity Services Engine

Enforce microsegmentation in OT environments with access policies that are simple to configure and that OT can control.

Splunk

Get a unified view of IT and OT data to correlate events, detect advanced threats, and orchestrate responses across your security stack.

Cisco Catalyst Center

Bring agility to your industrial operations with network management, preserve performance, and stay compliant across IT and OT with one platform.

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN

Connect and secure distributed field assets with ease by using a single platform to manage routers, unify security policies, and integrate your OT with your secure access service edge (SASE) infrastructure.

Improve warehouse management

Increase throughput, optimize space, and prevent thefts, with devices connected and secured by a rugged network that's managed by trusted IT tools.

Make travel smoother at airports

Boost passenger safety and satisfaction with a secure, IT-managed network for cameras, conveyors, and other essential airport equipment.

Make manufacturing smart and secure

Drive manufacturing innovation, secure operations, and adapt to change with an automated network managed and secured by proven IT tools.

Build a modern, smart power grid

Power a sustainable future with a secure and reliable grid. Unify your power sources and secure critical resources with an easily managed network.

Connect and protect roadways

Improve traffic management and secure critical infrastructure effectively with a scalable, flexible network that's managed by familiar IT tools.

Move more through ports and yards

Increase efficiency and enable autonomous operations by securely connecting your port assets and terminal operating system through a managed network.

Enhance train, trackside, and station operations

Securely scale your connected rail infrastructure to improve operations efficiency and offer innovative passenger services on board and in stations.

Optimize mining safety and efficiency

Improve environment monitoring and worker tracking, automate processes, and optimize resources with a robust network managed with IT proficiencies.


Expand your knowledge

Modernize your OT network

Unlock the value of IT/OT partnership for faster innovation.

Drive operational excellence with IT competencies

Learn how you can use Cisco technology and tools that empower IT and OT teams to collaborate effectively.

Gain future-ready OT security

Safeguard your operations today and prepare for the future with a shared IT/OT security strategy.

More resources to help you on your way

Extend enterprise networking practices to your industrial space with Cisco solutions, and discover the benefits.

The Business Case for IT/OT Collaboration

This business case explores key drivers of OT modernization, including standardization, cybersecurity, network automation, and AI readiness. Learn how leaders extend IT proficiencies to OT, through a simple IT/OT collaboration framework, to make real-world gains in operational and financial efficiencies.

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