Nozomi Networks and Sophos partner to combine OT and IT security ops

Nozomi Networks and Sophos have announced a partnership to integrate Nozomi Networks Vantage, a cloud-native, AI-enabled OT security platform, with Sophos Fusion, the company’s AI-native cybersecurity defence system to enhance visibility and threat detection between IT and OT environments.

Critical infrastructure is facing an aggressive threat landscape as both nation states and cybercriminals increasingly target OT and industrial environments, and many OT outages begin with a compromise of the IT environment. As organisations connect more industrial assets and adopt remote management capabilities, complete visibility across both IT and OT environments becomes increasingly important.

“The intersection of IT and OT environments has long been misunderstood by the cybersecurity industry, leading to inefficiencies and potential danger for critical infrastructure,” said Matt Cowell, Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Nozomi Networks. “This partnership helps solve these problems by seamlessly integrating OT intelligence into IT security investigations so teams have the full picture when assessing their increasingly expanding attack surface.”

The integration brings Nozomi’s OT telemetry, asset intelligence and threat data directly into Sophos Fusion, where it can be correlated with security data from across the IT environment without needing to switch contexts, putting OT intelligence directly where investigations happen to help security teams work faster and make better decisions.

“Defenders need every resource they can to combat sophisticated threat actors. This partnership helps security teams easily assess OT and IT vulnerabilities in one place, allowing them to take action much faster,” said Chris Bell, SVP of Global Channel and Alliances at Sophos.

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