Daily OT Security News: October 13, 2026

Welcome to the Daily OT Security News for October 13, 2026. This briefing brings together five verified OT-security developments. Source dates are shown with each link; where a candidate article’s date could not be independently confirmed, that limitation is stated. Palo Alto Networks’ 2026 State of Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, published October 6 and summarized by Industrial Cyber on October 10, surveyed more than 1,600 critical-infrastructure security leaders across 11 countries and five sectors. Palo Alto reports that 68% of respondents lack complete, real-time visibility of OT-network assets; 42% identify legacy, unpatchable OT assets as their biggest cyber risk; organizations use an average of seven disparate security tools; and 74% have not fully integrated IT/OT security operations. These are survey findings—not measurements of every operator and not a product-vulnerability advisory. Palo Alto also says 60% experienced a significant breach in the prior year and half of affected organizations cited physical-safety concerns. Its blog says 29% of CVEs in 2026 were exploited within 24 hours, compared with a 55-day industry-average patch-deployment time. This is an aggregate claim, not evidence that any named…