Dragos Teams with Industry Veterans to Establish New Industrial Reference Architecture
Summary: Dragos, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Juniper Networks and Bonneville Power Administration have collaborated on a reference architecture called the Converged Industrial Edge for Utilities, formerly the Ambassador Project under the DOE's CEDS initiative, aimed at converging IT and OT environments without disrupting safety, reliability, security and performance of mission-critical protection and control applications. The architecture is built on software-defined networking with security orchestration for automated flow creation, network visibility and situational awareness, and is designed to support both IT and OT use cases while preserving sub-millisecond requirements for deterministic applications.
Why it matters: The project exists because utilities, oil and gas and other industrial operators struggle to converge IT and OT without disrupting mission-critical control applications, and the DOE-funded design now carries the combined ICS security experience of Dragos's stated 600-plus years alongside SEL and Juniper - a stake in whether that convergence happens on an architecture built for deterministic operations or one bolted on afterward.
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