AI Factory Cyber Security and Data Protection Through Enhanced IT-OT Resilience Chain Integration

This 16-minute talk from Open Compute Project explores cybersecurity challenges in AI factory environments through enhanced IT-OT resilience chain integration. Ken Aduddell, Hyperscale Industry Leader at Rockwell Automation, discusses how the rapid integration of cooling OT equipment (cooling towers, CDUs, manifolds, piping, GPU cold plates) and power equipment (switchgear, busbar, PDU, power shelf/PSUs, power management controllers and BBUs) creates partial integration with numerous exposure points for cybersecurity breaches and unmonitored leaks. Learn about the limitations of Redfish as a potential single digital thread of IT-OT telemetry, as many subsystems in cooling and power lack internet enablement, secure industrial IoT connections, or functionality to manage AI power and cooling processes. Understand the cybersecurity implications as these cooling and power OT equipment components continue to be integrated at an exponential rate.