Why OT Resilience Is Now a Boardroom Imperative

For decades, industrial cybersecurity rested on a comfortable assumption: operational technology (OT) was protected by physical isolation. The "air gap" guaranteed that power grids, manufacturing lines, and water systems remained safely disconnected from the chaos of the public internet. That assumption is no longer just outdated - it is a strategic liability. Driven by the imperative for real-time efficiency, predictive maintenance, and AI-led automation, industrial operations are integrating with enterprise IT and cloud environments at an unprecedented scale. Telemetry from Palo Alto Networks…