OT Resilience and the Purdue Model: Protecting Industrial Operations from Cyberattacks and Downtime

Name: The OT resilience blueprint: Protecting industrial operations from cyberattacks and downtime
Start: 2026-08-14T16:20:20.000Z

Language

In English

OT is under attack

Operational technology is an increasingly common target for cyberattacks that disrupt uptime and revenue. This session focuses on the practical side of OT resilience: protecting SCADA, PLCs and ICS environments, reducing downtime, and recovering operations quickly without interrupting production.

Subramani Rao and Ryan Davis of Acronis are joined by Adam Gluck, founder and CEO of Copia Automation, and Mary Gannon, OT Incident Response Lead at GuidePoint Security, for a panel covering how resilience strategies map to the Purdue Model — the standard reference architecture for industrial control system networks — and how organizations can meet compliance requirements at each layer without slowing production.

The discussion covers where responsibility for OT resilience typically splits in practice: cyber protection, backup and recovery for supervisory and enterprise-level systems (Purdue Model Level 2 and above), and source control, version tracking and configuration management for industrial controllers and field devices (Levels 0 and 1).

Key takeaway: OT resilience isn't one tool or one team's job. It requires coordinated coverage across the full Purdue Model, from plant-floor controllers up to enterprise systems, with clear compliance mapping at each layer.

Watch this conference to learn:

Why attackers are targeting uptime instead of data and what that means for your operation.
How to reduce downtime with faster recovery metrics, including RTO, RPO and MTCR.
How to bridge the IT and OT security gap without disrupting operations.
How to protect legacy and air-gapped systems.
How to achieve compliance without slowing production.

Agenda highlights

The cost of downtime: Understand why availability is the most critical KPI in OT and how downtime is becoming the new ransom leverage.

Panel discussion: Hear from Acronis, GuidePoint Security and Copia on real-world challenges and strategies for securing industrial environments.

Unified demo: Full-stack recovery to restore both infrastructure and machine logic across the Purdue model.

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Speakers

Ryan Davis

Senior Director, Enterprise Sales, Acronis

Ryan brings over a decade of storage and data management experience to Acronis leading our commercial enterprise sales organization. Acronis’ enterprise sales team is focused on helping organizations improve their business continuity plans and reduce cyber exposure in historically difficult computing areas such as the edge, endpoints, industrial automation, and R&D labs. Ryan began his sales career selling knives door to door and holds a BS in Sales & Business Marketing from Western Michigan University.