OT/IoT Security: 3 Key Takeaways From Gartner Peer Insight's Survey
Cisco News, February 22nd, 2023
In the event of a cyberattack, are industrial organizations prepared to defend their operational technology (OT) and industrial control system (ICS) environments? Cisco set out to answer this question in a survey conducted together with Gartner Peer Insights and Takepoint Research in Q3CY22. The audience for the survey involved IT, OT, engineering, and InfoSec professionals across the globe.
Results showed that 77 percent of industrial organizations are still in the beginning stages of their OT security journeys. And none of the participants have fully secured their OT/ICS environments yet. This fact is worrying, considering the post-pandemic world in which we find ourselves.
Much has changed over the last three years. The pandemic has significantly accelerated the digital transformation of OT, which has led to most-if not all-of organizations' critical operations to be integrated with digital technologies. In turn, cyberattacks such as those suffered by Colonial Pipeline, Oldsmar Water, and JBS in 2021 have become more prevalent as bad actors focus on the vulnerabilities of OT/ICS networks.