Fast Facts
- Cloud Range launched a free 28-question OT Cyber Readiness Assessment to help organizations uncover incident-response gaps.
- It evaluates seven readiness areas, including asset awareness, IT/OT coordination, detection, response, recovery, and validation.
- The urgency is clear: about 3,300 industrial organizations faced ransomware in 2025; 59% of surveyed critical-infrastructure organizations reported a major breach.
- Readiness depends on coordinated teams—and practice: the assessment sparks gap-finding, while realistic attack simulations test how teams perform under pressure.
A 28-Question Check for OT Readiness
A new free assessment aims to help organizations find gaps in their response to cyberattacks on operational technology (OT), the systems that manage industrial equipment and processes. It asks 28 questions across seven areas, including asset awareness, threat detection, team coordination, response, and recovery.
Teams can mark each answer “Ready,” “Developing,” or “Unsure.” Rather than assign a score, the tool encourages IT, security, operations, and engineering staff to compare answers and spot conflicting assumptions. That offers a practical first step, though a questionnaire cannot show how teams will perform during an actual attack.
From Plans to Practice
OT attacks can disrupt production, damage equipment, and threaten safety. Industry research reported that about 3,300 industrial organizations faced ransomware in 2025. Another survey found that 59% of critical-infrastructure organizations experienced a major security breach in the past year, while 74% had not fully joined their IT and OT security operations.
Therefore, teams need clear roles before an incident. For example, isolating a compromised system may help contain a threat, but staff must first consider how that action could affect equipment or essential services.
Organizations can use assessment results to set priorities, then test their plans through realistic exercises. Wider use of such checks could help critical-service providers prepare more consistently. Still, the strongest measure of readiness comes when teams practice decisions together and learn how to protect both operations and the people who depend on them.
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