Rick Kaun, Rockwell Automation

Rick Kaun is the Global Director of Cybersecurity Services at Rockwell Automation, one of the world's largest industrial automation companies, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At Rockwell, Rick leads the SecureOT practice — a unified suite of professional and managed security services designed to protect the complex, aging, and highly regulated systems that keep factories running. Before joining Rockwell, he served as VP of Solutions at Verve Industrial Protection and as Global Business Manager for Industrial IT Solutions at Honeywell Process Solutions. Today we're talking about why operational technology security is fundamentally different from protecting your office network, what makes patchwork plant floor environments so vulnerable, and what small and mid-sized manufacturers can actually do about it — even without a dedicated security team.