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Part 3 of the Enterprise OIT Series By Bill Moore, Founder & CEO, Xona Systems TL;DR -- Intelligence vs.

91% of respondents in the energy and utilities sector reported a significant OT cybersecurity incident in the past year. That figure comes from Honeywell’s 2026 OT Security Benchmark. In operational technology (OT), an incident can mean more than compromised data. It can interrupt production, delay maintenance, affect essential services, and put safety and uptime at risk.

A vendor can bypass MFA and sign in with an individual account while still being able to reach industrial systems unrelated to the job. Before replacing your current setup, follow one real service request from approval through completion. The exercise can reveal outdated permissions, unnecessary network connectivity, shared credentials, or records that are difficult to retrieve when you need them.

Written by Bill Moore, CEO & Founder TL;DR In Part 1 of this series, I looked at how computing and telecommunications gradually became what we now call Enterprise IT. That change did not happen because someone decided to merge two departments. It happened because the technologies, the systems, and the work they supported became too interconnected to describe separately.

There was a time when “Information Technology” wasn’t a department, an industry, or even a common business term. In the 1970s and 1980s, computing and telecommunications were largely separate disciplines. Computers processed information. Telecommunications moved information. Most systems operated independently, often serving specific departments or business functions. Then those worlds began to converge. Organizations started connecting computers through networks.