2022 State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report

The 2022 State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report finds that OT security efforts at organizations around the world are making inadequate progress toward full protection of ICS and SCADA systems in the relatively new world of connected OT.

The incremental progress that has been made in security maturity since last year has done little to move the needle on actual security outcomes . The result is that a vast majority of organizations still suffer intrusions—multiple times per year in most cases . Given the geopolitical climate, governments around the world are warning that increased cyber attacks are likely on critical infrastructure and key economic assets.

Industrial organizations across a broad spectrum of sectors will do well to quickly advance the maturity of their OT security efforts, leveraging predictive behavior, orchestration, and automation technologies to establish true zero-trust access and defend against threats coming from malicious and well-meaning insiders, external cybercriminals, and state-sponsored attackers.