Welcome to Your Network’s Edge by RAD, where innovation meets connectivity. This podcast highlights how RAD’s technologies are empowering businesses and service providers. In every episode, we provide in-depth insights into the world of IoT, 5G, network Edge, and AI-powered networking, showcasing how RAD’s solutions empower service providers and critical infrastructure operators to stay ahead.
Whether you’re a communications service provider, an industrial IoT professional, or someone passionate about the tech driving modern connectivity, this podcast offers valuable perspectives. Tune in to discover how RAD’s customer-centric approach and market-leading solutions are redefining networking for a connected world.
In this episode of Your Network’s Edge: The RAD Way, we explore how modern critical infrastructure environments (https://www.rad.com/topics/critical-operational-networks/) like substations, distributed energy resources, and remote industrial sites face a growing challenge: lack of visibility at the network edge (https://www.rad.com/solutions/). While connectivity has improved with fiber, 4G, and 5G (https://www.rad.com/use_case/iot-gateway-for-private-4g-5g-networks/), many operators still struggle to understand what is actually happening inside their OT environments, creating dangerous blind spots that attackers can exploit.
In this episode, we explore how integrated OT security solutions combine secure connectivity with real-time monitoring to eliminate these blind spots. By leveraging IoT gateways (https://www.rad.com/products/iot-gateways/), passive protocol monitoring, and AI-driven anomaly detection (https://www.rad.com/resource/glossary-ai-powered-networking/), organizations can enable continuous visibility into OT behavior, detect unusual activity instantly, and support more resilient and compliant network operations. The result is stronger security posture, faster incident response, and scalable protection across hundreds of distributed edge locations.
Learn how edge visibility, OT monitoring, and secure connectivity work together to transform industrial cybersecurity from reactive defense to proactive control.
Chapters
(00:00) Introduction – Network Edge, IoT & Modern Connectivity
(00:21) The Hidden Risk – Lack of Visibility at the Edge
(01:11) Why Secure Connectivity Isn’t Enough
(02:04) Firewalls & VPN Limitations in OT Security
(02:33) Scaling Security Across Remote Sites
(02:57) Regulations & Compliance – IEC 62443 Explained
(03:50) RAD IoT Gateway – SecFlow Architecture
(04:20) Integrated Monitoring – Connectivity + Visibility
(05:16) OT Protocol Monitoring & Process-Level Threats
(06:09) Connectivity & Failover – Fiber, LTE & 5G
(06:41) Distributed Energy Resources & Attack Surface Growth
(07:09) Layered Security – Why Integration Matters
(08:03) OT Monitoring vs Firewalls – What You’re Missing
(08:30) Network Resilience & Backup Connectivity
(09:23) Compliance & Continuous Monitoring Evidence
(09:52) Local vs Central Analytics at the Edge
(10:13) Encryption vs Deep Packet Inspection
(10:39) Key Takeaways – Visibility, Monitoring & Scale
(11:08) Closing Summary – Securing the OT Edge
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