Asset Visibility Maps Relationships and Communication Pathways in OT Environments
Summary: Dragos describes asset visibility in ICS environments as more than an inventory: it maps the relationships and communication pathways between OT assets, showing how many hops apart they sit and how well they are segmented. The post cites a Dragos Year in Review finding that 88% of its professional services engagements involved significant network segmentation weaknesses, and Ponemon Institute figures showing asset discovery and management was cited by only 29% of organizations and did not make the top 10 industrial security practices.
Bottom line: Attackers reach high-value OT targets through lateral steps across seemingly insignificant, externally connected assets, and those pathways stay unseen without a map. With 88% of Dragos engagements finding segmentation weaknesses, the gap between what leaders believe is isolated and what is actually reachable is where the damage sits.
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- OT / ICS & Critical Infrastructure
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