Bridging the IT-OT Cybersecurity Gap: Strengthening OT Cybersecurity with Advanced SOC Capabilities

This blog summarizes challenges in bridging IT and OT cybersecurity—highlighting cultural and technical differences, unclear ownership, lack of visibility, expanding attack surfaces, tooling complexity, and resource gaps—and recommends building specialized industrial SOC capabilities. It promotes the Dragos and Splunk integration as a solution to enhance OT visibility, reduce alert fatigue, and improve detection, investigation, and response across enterprise and OT networks.