On-Demand Webinar
AI in OT Explained: Risks, Governance, Safety & Cybersecurity
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The Rise of AI in Industrial Environments
Adoption of Artificial Intelligence across Operational Technology (OT), Industrial Control Systems (ICS), manufacturing, and critical infrastructure is accelerating. Organizations are exploring predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, process optimization, autonomous operations, and cyber threat detection. Unlike enterprise IT, industrial environments prioritize safety, availability, reliability, and deterministic operation above pure efficiency and automation.
A recent webinar between experts from Shieldworkz and Arista Cyber addressed a central question: how can industrial organizations leverage AI without introducing unacceptable operational, safety, or cybersecurity risk? The consensus was that AI should enhance human expertise rather than replace operators, engineers, or safety systems, and that responsible adoption requires governance, transparency, and human oversight in every deployment.
What You'll Learn
(Key Technical Takeaways):
AI’s New Boundaries in Safety-Critical OT
AI advises, humans decide: Keep AI as a decision-support tool. Shutdowns, control-logic changes, and safety overrides stay under human authority and accountability, responsibility cannot be handed to an algorithm.
Demand transparency, not black boxes: If your team can't explain why an AI made a recommendation, don't act on it. Explainability, traceability, and auditability are non-negotiable requirements, not nice-to-haves.
Safety outranks efficiency, always: AI can strengthen situational awareness, but proven safety systems (SIS, emergency shutdowns) must stay in control of critical decisions, especially where lives, equipment, or the environment are at stake.
Data quality is the real risk: AI is only as reliable as the data behind it. Know what's collected, who owns it, how it's protected, and how models are monitored so they don't quietly drift out of accuracy over time.
Solve problems, don't chase trends:
Start with the business problem, not the technology. Many issues are still best solved with traditional engineering, threshold monitoring, or standard automation, not AI for its own sake.
Where AI Delivers Value Fastest
Predictive maintenance & equipment health monitoring
Production quality analysis & energy optimization
Alarm management, operational analytics & reporting
Cybersecurity threat detection & alert triage
Workflow automation & documentation generation
OT Data as the New Attack Surface
Training datasets are becoming high-value targets for adversaries.
Controls for data quality, lineage, and integrity.
Securing data pipelines from edge → historian → cloud → AI model.
Balancing Human-in-the-Loop with Automation Pressure
Enforcing oversight without slowing production or uptime.
When human approval is mandatory vs. when automation is safe.
Workflow designs that protect both safety and efficiency.
Vendor Risk: Hidden or Embedded AI
The rise of AI-enabled PLCs, gateways, and sensors.
Why SBOMs must evolve into AI-BOMs (models, datasets, training lineage).
Critical questions operators must ask vendors for transparency and assurance.
Who Should Attend:
OT/ICS Security Engineers and Architects
Plant Managers and Operations Teams
Industrial Risk and Compliance Professionals
Anyone integrating AI into ICS/OT/IoT environments
Cybersecurity Risk Managers
Webinar Details
Duration: 35 Minutes
Speakers: David Lee, Denrich Sananda & Kevin Yu
This briefing only scratches the surface. The full recording is ready to watch right now, no signup or form required. Catch the complete discussion with Shieldworkz and Arista Cyber, including real-world examples, deeper technical detail, and the full Q&A on responsible AI adoption in industrial environments.
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Meet the Panel Experts
Speaker
David Lee
Global Head of Services Shieldworkz
Speaker
Denrich Sananda
Managing Partner
Arista Cyber
Moderator
Kevin Yu
Key Account Director
Arista Cyber
