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. 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. Only 15% said their critical processes … More →

Source: Help Net Security · 2026-11-12