The Shifting Landscape of OT Incident Response
Summary: A Dragos incident responder with six years working exclusively on industrial networks describes responding to ransomware at Fortune 500 factories, intrusions and insider threat cases at small municipal utilities with a single IT resource, and forensics on low-level industrial devices. The post notes these environments often run Windows 2003 or older, require legacy and manual forensics and custom tooling for vendor firmware, and that Dragos Incident Response saw retainer activations rise across three general situations.
What's compelling: The responder reads the rise in retainer activations as growing OT cybersecurity maturity, not worsening exposure - but the same environments still run Windows 2003 and cannot safely host modern forensic agents, so early detection depends on customers choosing to call before an intrusion is confirmed.
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