The OT vulnerability story is familiar
Legacy protocols, long refresh cycles, and third-party remote access create predictable pivot points. Software-only barriers help—but they depend on continuous correctness under stress.
What changes with a diode segment
For nominated flows, hardware directionality removes reverse traversal as a mechanism entirely: monitoring and datasets can still exit, while many classes of remote manipulation lose their network path.
Grounding the discussion
The OT-focused brief connects plant realities—energy, manufacturing examples—to architectural patterns you can stress-test with your automation engineers.
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