Categorical Trust in Digitality by Srinivas Kumar

Categorical trust in digitality is nirvana for information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) convergence from device manufacturing to provisioning, commissioning, and field operations in production environments. It may not require expensive hardware upgrades to legacy devices and may be achievable with cost effective software or firmware enhancements, to extend the operational lifetime and efficiency of brownfield and greenfield devices in production environments. Retrofitting trust in the minefield of unprotected devices already in existence is essential for interoperability and integrity of long-lived inter-connected systems. The traditional information technology (IT) detection and prevention methods based on threat models are inadequate to defend the billions of devices that are an intrinsic part of our daily regimen. It's essential to adopt protection models based on risk for modernization across all sectors – smart factories, smart cities, smart grids, smart transportation, smart homes, healthcare systems, aviation systems, public utility systems, defense systems, and law enforcement systems. The power of scientific and technological innovations offers opportunities to transform and reform the way things are and the way they ought to be. If the past three decades are a gauge of the power of innovation, then the next three decades will be a harbinger of the power of transformation.