Help Net Security2026-11-12 05:30:13

CISOs say OT will survive a cyberattack, but their engineers aren’t so sure

Ask industrial security chiefs whether their plants would keep running through a full IT compromise, and every one who answered the SANS 2026 ICS/OT survey says yes.

Summary

Thirty-eight percent expect to run indefinitely on islanded ICS/OT systems, and 62% expect to get by temporarily on manual controls. None foresee degradation or a halt. The 696 practitioners SANS surveyed, the people who would run those manual controls, are less sure.

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This is a brief wire summary, the full story (linked below) has the complete details.

KazaSec's take

Stories like this are part of why proactive security testing exists, finding the gap before someone else does is always cheaper than responding after the fact.

Coverage details

Source: Help Net Security
Published: 2026-11-12 05:30:13
Author: mirko zorz
Category: technology

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