Tuesday, October 22nd 1:45 PM – 2:35 PM
Justin Mowry, Penn State
As Penn State continues to work to improve our energy conservation efforts, we have realized the need to collect and look at the data on a more granular level. We wish to accomplish this by collecting the data at a building level, and then utilizing cloud storage and processing to handle the analytics in a data lake.
OT security is a hot topic of discussion, and a very important need in today’s world where there are more and more targeted attacks on OT networks costing universities and governments millions of dollars to deal with once compromised. Because of this, we have been making a great effort to secure our OT, as well as our IT infrastructure.
Due to these reasons, we have set out to develop a solution to accomplish these goals while also trying to keep a low footprint as far as devices in the building level. Instead of having separate devices for each purpose, we have utilized VMware to host all the services on a single appliance. A single appliance that controls and encrypts network traffic, analyzes the IT data for potential security threats/risks, analyzes and determines the health of the IT and BACnet networks, and collects building data for analytics in the data lake.