73% of CISOs Admit… Security incidents due to unknown or unmanaged assets is a huge headache

Once upon a time, the CISO was the firewall champion – emerging from deep within the IT trenches. Networking, servers, patching, endpoint security – these were their domains.

And they’ve come a long way. From tech specialists to boardroom leaders, today’s CISOs speak the language of risk, regulation, and resilience. They sit at the intersection of cyber, business, and compliance.

This shift is highlighted well in recent industry analysis on the expanding risk surface beyond IT into OT environments (“CSO Online, May 12, 2025 – More Assets, More Attack Surface, More Risk”)

But here’s the gap many organizations are only now starting to confront:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 (𝐎𝐓) 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫.

While IT security has matured, OT security has been left behind—running on decades-old systems never designed to be connected, let alone secured.

The typical CISO has climbed the ladder through IT – rarely touching manufacturing floors, power grids, building systems, industrial networks, or something they would have walked past every day, the physical security perimeter!

Yes, this is where the next big risk lies:

❗OT environments with no visibility.
❗Legacy systems with no patching.
❗Critical operations technology infra with flaky security oversight.

𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂 𝒄𝒚𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒆. 𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝒂 𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒚, 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆𝒕𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒌.

The CISO’s role/attention must expand—beyond the data center, beyond the cloud, beyond IT—into the physical, operational, and industrial worlds.

Cyber-physical risk is no longer a siloed conversation. It’s the new frontier of enterprise resilience.

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧?