Effective Vulnerability Management in OT Environments Starts with Asset Discovery

This blog introduces a series on OT vulnerability management, describing why industrial/OT environments lag behind IT in vulnerability management and highlighting challenges such as disruptive active scanning, long patch cycles, limited downtime tolerance, legacy assets, and manual remediation; it recommends establishing continuous asset discovery and automated inventories as the foundational step toward effective OT vulnerability management and points readers to a related Dragos whitepaper for practical guidance.