Industrial Control Systems stories

Netskope and Forescout link tools to push zero trust across managed and unmanaged devices, curbing lateral movement on local networks.

Codific warns power grids face repeat cyberattack patterns and urges utilities to bolster resilience to outages and cascading disruption.

OT is now near-universal in Industry 4.0, but an AMDT study warns weak governance and uneven automation are eroding resilience gains.

Asimily introduces its In Flight partner tier to help mature channel partners scale IoT, OT and IoMT security across complex environments.

Xona's Platform 5.5 boosts resilient OT remote access with session hold features, centralised governance and wider security integrations.

Akamai teams with NVIDIA to launch agentless Zero Trust segmentation for OT, offloading security to BlueField DPUs to protect critical infrastructure.

Healthcare is now the prime target for OT and IoT cyber attacks in Australia, as security alerts per organisation surge to third globally.

Cyber attacks on industrial systems in 2025 shifted from quiet spying to coordinated operations aiming to disrupt critical infrastructure.

OPSWAT appoints malware expert Jan Miller as CTO and puts him in charge of a new Technology Centre focused on AI-driven threat prevention.

Gartner warns a misconfigured AI in cyber-physical systems could knock out critical infrastructure and power in a G20 nation by 2028.

Illumio and Armis expand their partnership to fuse asset intelligence with microsegmentation, tightening OT and IT security controls.

Illumio and Armis expand their partnership to deliver integrated Zero Trust security for converged IT, OT and IoT estates worldwide.

Rockwell opens a 24/7 Singapore security operations centre to monitor and defend industrial OT networks across the Asia Pacific region.

Dragos expands its Microsoft partnership to run OT security on Azure, integrate with Sentinel and offer SaaS from Q1 2026.

Mitsubishi Electric completes USD $1bn purchase of OT and IoT security specialist Nozomi Networks, which will continue to run independently.

Claroty secures USD $150m Series F funding to accelerate global expansion and strengthen cyber-physical systems security platform.

Rob Demain warns that cyber campaigns on critical infrastructure are demanding behaviour-led defence over compliance.

Industrial AI and IT/OT convergence are forcing factories to abandon closed networks and adopt hybrid, zero trust cyber security architectures.

Australia's power, water and telecoms at risk as report warns critical infrastructure lacks defences against emerging drone-borne cyber threats.

Asimily adds device-aware microsegmentation to Cisco ISE, turning its device intelligence into enforceable security group policies at scale.