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Audience Takeaways:
- Why full OT asset visibility often creates operational and deployment delays
- How passive data access simplifies both visibility and security monitoring from the start
- How Garland TAPs and Hardware Data Diodes enable fast, unidirectional traffic capture
- How Darktrace can detect novel threats without requiring full inventories
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The Reality of OT Visibility and How to Fast-Track Security Monitoring in Industrial Networks
August 13, 2025
Achieving full OT visibility often sounds like a logical first step, but in reality, it's one of the most time-consuming and operationally challenging tasks facing industrial networks. Legacy systems, limited switching infrastructure, and remote or fragile sites make comprehensive inventory-building slow and costly and often provide limited security value when patching isn’t always feasible.
In this session, experts from Darktrace, Jeffrey Macre, Industrial Security Solutions Architect, and Chris Bihary, CEO of Garland Technology, will break down the real-world challenges of OT visibility and highlight how organizations can fast-track deployment by safely accessing network traffic from day one. Using passively collected network traffic from TAPs and unidirectional Hardware Data Diodes, Garland enables safe traffic access across Purdue levels, while Darktrace applies behavioral AI to analyze full-packet traffic, build asset visibility, and detect threats, all without complex configuration or long asset inventory projects.
Audience Takeaways:
- Why full OT asset visibility often creates operational and deployment delays
- How passive data access simplifies both visibility and security monitoring from the start
- How Garland TAPs and Hardware Data Diodes enable fast, unidirectional traffic capture
- How Darktrace can detect novel threats without requiring full inventories
The Reality of OT Visibility and How to Fast-Track Security Monitoring in Industrial Networks
Achieving full OT visibility often sounds like a logical first step, but in reality, it's one of the most time-consuming and operationally challenging tasks facing industrial networks. Legacy systems, limited switching infrastructure, and remote or fragile sites make comprehensive inventory-building slow and costly and often provide limited security value when patching isn’t always feasible.
In this session, experts from Darktrace, Jeffrey Macre, Industrial Security Solutions Architect, and Chris Bihary, CEO of Garland Technology, will break down the real-world challenges of OT visibility and highlight how organizations can fast-track deployment by safely accessing network traffic from day one. Using passively collected network traffic from TAPs and unidirectional Hardware Data Diodes, Garland enables safe traffic access across Purdue levels, while Darktrace applies behavioral AI to analyze full-packet traffic, build asset visibility, and detect threats, all without complex configuration or long asset inventory projects.
Our speakers
Jeffrey Macre is a cybersecurity expert with over 20 years of experience securing Operational Technology (OT) environments across critical infrastructure sectors, including Energy, Water, Oil/Gas, Transportation, Manufacturing, and the Defense Industrial Base. Leveraging his extensive knowledge of Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Jeffrey has led the design and implementation of advanced cybersecurity architectures across diverse OT environments, helping organizations meet evolving security demands.
Throughout his career, Jeffrey has provided high-level consulting to critical infrastructure organizations, guiding them in OT/ICS cybersecurity, risk management, governance, and compliance. His expertise spans SCADA and Distributed Control Systems (DCS) from leading vendors such as Rockwell, Emerson, General Electric, Honeywell, and Siemens, equipping him to drive impactful security initiatives that align with organizational goals and regulatory standards.
Jeffrey is also a recognized industry speaker, having presented at S4, CS4CA and ManuSec, some of the most prominent ICS cybersecurity conferences, where he shared insights on the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within ICS environments.