Fortinet Report: OT Cybersecurity Risk Elevates Within Executive Leadership Ranks
GLOBAL, JUL 9 – Fortinet's 2025 report shows 95% of organizations now assign OT cybersecurity oversight to C-suite executives, correlating with a 42% drop in revenue-impacting operational outages.
- Fortinet’s latest report reveals that over half of organizations—52%—now assign responsibility for operational technology security to their chief information or chief security officers, reflecting a notable increase since 2022.
- This shift follows a global trend of increasing executive accountability for OT risk, with 95% of organizations reporting OT risk under broader C-suite oversight.
- The report highlights that organizations consolidating OT security in leadership report higher maturity and fewer intrusions, aided by vendor consolidation and segmentation practices.
- Customers leveraging Fortinet’s OT Security Platform have seen incidents drop by 93% and response efficiency improve by up to seven times, contributing to a decrease in operational outages from 52% to 42%.
- Fortinet recommends organizations adopt segmented, hardened architectures aligned with standards and leverage AI-driven threat intelligence to improve OT resiliency and reduce attack surfaces.
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2025 State Of Operational Technology And Cybersecurity Report Published By Fortinet - Manufacturing AUTOMATION
July 9, 2025, Burnaby, B.C. — Fortinet has announced the findings from its global 2025 State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report, reviewing the current state of operational technology (OT) cybersecurity and highlighting opportunities for continued improvement by organizations. The report is based on data from a global survey, including Canadian OT professionals from manufacturing, transportation/logistics, healthcare/pharma, oil, …
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Fortinet Report: OT Cybersecurity Risk Elevates within Executive Leadership Ranks
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CISOs/CSOs now responsible for OT in most firms
Organizations are taking OT security more seriously as more than half (52%) of organizations report that the CISO/CSO is responsible for OT. This means an increase from 16% in 2022. Also, 95% of organizations report that the C-Suite is responsible for OT, up from 41% in 2022. These are from a Fortinet based on data from a global survey of more than 550 OT professionals, conducted by a third-party research company. Survey respondents were from di…
Fortinet Reveals 2025 OT Cybersecurity Report Findings
Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), announced the findings of its global 2025 State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report. The report presents insights into the current state of operational technology (OT) cybersecurity. It also highlights key trends, challenges, and best practices for securing IT and OT environments. According to Fortinet, organizations are showing greater maturity in OT cybersecurity. The assignment of OT risk responsibilit…
AV-Comparatives Publishes Operational Technology (OT) Security Test of ARIA AZT PROTECT™ - Journal of Cyber Policy
Logo ARIA Cybersecurity Logo AV-Comparatives ARIA Expert Reviewing AI-driven Defense System AV-Comparatives has published the results of a test evaluating security products in air-gapped Operational Technology (OT) environments. Testing in true offline conditions is often neglected in security evaluations. This report highlights how solutions like ARIA AZT PROTECT can enforce strong execution control in OT environments.” — said Peter Stelzhammer…
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