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The air gap is a myth and other OT security truths

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STIX ID: report--e8d1efb9-9edb-500a-bc15-ff82cf2055b8

Feed Name: Help Net Security

Date Published: 2026-07-21

Date Updated: 2026-07-21

Author: Mirko Zorz

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This interview with an OT security director argues that attackers target control and availability in industrial environments (not just data theft), dispels the myth of widespread air gaps, and describes defensive practices: negotiated containment trigger points, passive network visibility for legacy controllers, segmentation coupled with rehearsed degraded-operation recovery, and treating ransomware as an economic extortion problem to reduce downtime and attacker leverage.

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