While widely adopted in enterprise systems, remote access in industrial automation and control systems (IACS) has long remained a challenge. Obstacles to adopting industrial remote access have included security concerns, insufficient connectivity and a lack of collaboration between IT and operations personnel.
These challenges are increasingly more manageable as more organizations adopt The Connected Enterprise approach. By converging IT and operations technology (OT) networks, and by supporting the adoption of standard networking technologies, The Connected Enterprise makes industrial remote access a very real possibility.
