Security has been considered a liability for providers of private 5G technology, but Celona is trying to make it a trump card by playing on zero trust as a way of uniting industrial IT and OT (operational technology) systems within a common wireless network. The success of this approach will depend on whether enterprises believe that the combination of zero trust architecture and 5G network slicing can deliver the security as well as performance demanded by industrial enterprises. Traditionally in sectors such as manufacturing, mining, engineering and transportation, IT systems running applications such as enterprise accounting, and resource planning, and email, have been kept separate from OT, since they have different computational and communication needs. OT may not be more…