A water and wastewater management provider upgraded to the Emerson Ovation DCS and needed a secure way to deliver operational data from the OT environment to IT users and the cloud. Existing firewalls were insufficient for the required protection and compatibility with Ovation, which outputs normalized UDP data streams. The organization needed two simultaneous one‑way UDP transfers for live operational data along with a nightly log file export, all without introducing inbound threat paths. A more secure, hardware‑enforced method was required to maintain OT isolation while ensuring reliable data availability for external stakeholders.

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