Scenario: Energy company Suncor’s dispersed ecosystem relies on different organizations, partnerships, and joint ventures throughout its upstream to downstream business. Each brings its own operating environmental norms and diverse approaches to cybersecurity, which can prove challenging when cyber-related incidents occur. To reduce cyber risk, Suncor launched a pilot initiative aimed at bridging the gap between these different operating environments and connecting the OT upstream and downstream teams together. During the pilot phase, the centralized team is being financed by the IT group to ensure common practices and approaches to cyber risk, a standard infrastructure, and consistent asset inventory tools, and aligned processes to continuously monitor the OT environment. Through this centralized team, Suncor can continuously improve the collective cyber-resilience controls and plans between upstream and downstream partner organizations. This methodology balances preparedness and protection while improving monitoring and response capabilities. Key takeaway: Collaborating and aligning on the adoption of unified approaches and controls improved the monitoring and visibility of the OT environment, reducing the detection and response time of IT/OT software versioning and patching from a few days to minutes.