OT security stories
Data centre operators are under pressure to supply their own electricity, opening the door for Honeywell to add on-site power and utilities.
The appointment comes as firms race to secure autonomous AI agents that can access systems and physical infrastructure without human oversight.
The new models aim to give utilities, emergency crews and factory teams tougher, better-connected kit for work away from the office.
Australian companies face mounting breach risks as AI-driven attacks outpace detection, exposing costly gaps in containment and recovery.
Attackers turned a newly disclosed Gitea flaw into automated intrusions within days, hitting systems in five countries and exposing source code and secrets.
Early security design can improve uptime and reveal operational data in data centres, but only if cybersecurity is built in from the start.
With exploit windows shrinking to under two days, AI could help Australian security teams decide what to patch first and cut delays.
More than a third of industrial decision-makers now see cyber risk as a top barrier to growth, a Rockwell survey found.
Critical infrastructure operators are using cellular links to secure distributed assets as outages and spoofing raise the stakes for resilience.
Incomplete asset inventories are leaving industrial operators exposed, with only 21% able to track every OT system despite 88% calling programmes mature.
Industrial control systems could be patched faster as Rockwell tests controlled access to Claude Mythos 5 to spot flaws before attackers exploit them.
Smaller operators are carrying much of the danger as a new study finds 66% of assessed US telecoms fall into an elevated risk band.
Canadian customers gain access to a larger cyber security and identity services team as Calgary becomes Integrity360's North American base.
With most operators exposed to basic flaws, the paper warns telecom networks could face the same low-effort intrusions seen in US water systems.
A major coordinated attack on UK battery storage could cost the grid GBP £2 billion to GBP £10 billion within five years, Centrii says.
Australian utilities face sharper scrutiny as cyber incidents and supplier failures threaten outages, compliance breaches and market stability.
The reported incident has heightened fears that autonomous AI agents could probe critical systems faster than governments can contain them.
Alert-led security teams risk falling behind as AI now needs to be built into the SOC's core to stop attacks earlier and preserve sovereignty.
Staff could soon lose access to Wi-Fi, VPNs and APIs as public certificate authorities stop issuing login certificates and the free ones expire in October.
Industrial operators will get faster compliance evidence and safer change control as the new platform replaces spreadsheets and manual OT workflows in January.
