OT
We've curated 43 cybersecurity statistics about OT to help you understand how operational technology is facing unique threats and evolving practices in sectors like manufacturing and energy management in 2025.
Showing 21-40 of 43 results
The three OT cybersecurity controls most correlated with risk reduction are: Incident Response Planning (up to 18.5% average risk reduction), Defensible Architecture (up to 17.09%), ICS Network Visibility and Monitoring (up to 16.47%).
Indirect losses impact up to 70% of OT-related breaches.
87% of leaders at industrial organizations believe it is very or extremely important to integrate OT cybersecurity tools with industrial code management tools.
87% of leaders at industrial organizations believe it is very or extremely important to integrate OT cybersecurity tools with industrial code management tools.
8% of industrial organizations claim that nation-state actors are their top security concern.
50% of industrial organizations claim that supply chain threats and cybercriminal activity are their top security concern.
64% of industrial organizations classify their OT cybersecurity maturity as foundational.
9% of industrial organizations claim that zero-day vulnerabilities are their top security concern.
57% of industrial organizations deploy more than three tools to monitor IT, OT, and IoT environments.
Only 17% of industrial organizations report mature OT security practices.
44% of industrial organizations claim to have strong real-time cyber visibility.
Nearly 60% of industrial organizations have low to no confidence in their Operational Technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) threat detection capabilities.
49% of industrial organizations cite vulnerability prioritization as the most laborious task.
44% of industrial organizations cite risk mitigation as the most laborious task
Over 33% of industrial organizations take more than 90 days to remediate threats.
63% of industrial organizations take over 30 days to remediate threats.
19% of industrial organizations identify their cybersecurity maturity as evolving.
8% of industrial organizations claim that nation-state actors are their top security concern.
9% of industrial organizations claim that zero-day vulnerabilities are their top security concern.
Top publicly exposed OT/ICS protocols observed in 2024 included Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA) – 43%, Distributed Network Protocol (DNP) – 22%, Niagara-Fox – 21%, Ethernet/IP – 10%, Modbus – 4%.