OT Security, In Practice: 4 Cross‑Industry Trends from Global Assessments and How CISOs Should Respond
Jan 26, 2026
OT incidents rarely start with "OT attacks." They start with ordinary enterprise weaknesses: shared credentials, remote access shortcuts, management systems that bridge zones too easily, and monitoring that stops short of operations. When those weaknesses line up, an initial IT compromise becomes an OT event, and the deciding factor is no longer whether the activity is detected, but whether the environment can be contained and recovered without extended outage. What matters is that these failure patterns repeat across industries, which means they can be anticipated and solved - but only if recovery is treated as a security control, not an afterthought. Recurring OT Security Patterns Across Industries Sygnia is a premier cyber technology and services company, with extensive experience helping organisations' IT/OT environments respond to cyber incidents and strengthen enterprise-wide cyber security.. Across numerous OT security assessments, adversary simulations, and inc...
