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OT pen test findings that plant teams can actually use 

ID: 9e4e7bf1-62fa-523c-abef-1ee625978d57

STIX ID: report--9e4e7bf1-62fa-523c-abef-1ee625978d57

Feed Name: Pen Test Partners Blog

Date Published: 2026-05-14

Date Updated: 2026-05-14

Author: Alex Wallace

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The author argues that many OT penetration test reports produce accurate findings but offer impractical remediations and raw CVSS scores that fail to reflect OT operational context; this undermines credibility and leads asset owners to ignore actionable recommendations. The paper recommends reporting each finding with context-aware risk assessment and a range of fixes — quick wins, mid-term mitigations, strategic/long-term replacements, and compensating controls — and provides examples (Modbus, SNMP, unsupported OS, screen locks, EDR, SSH v1) to show how to make recommendations realistic and useful.

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