AI Threats to OT and ICS Security: How Industrial Organizations Are Detecting, Defending Against, and Adopting AI in Operational Technology Environments

AI transformed business and IT security. Now it's crossing into OT, bringing the same efficiency gains, the same defensive potential, and the same adversarial capabilities into environments that were never designed to absorb them.

On October 5, 2026 at 10:30AM ET, SANS Certified Instructor Michael Hoffman and OPSWAT's Director of Product Marketing Matt Wiseman will share new survey data on how industrial organizations are encountering and defending against AI-enabled threats in their ICS/OT environments, from adaptive malware built to evade OT-native detection to AI systems now connected to the control systems themselves.

The session and corresponding paper will cover:

• Which AI-enabled attack vectors OT security teams are actually seeing, including AI-assisted lateral movement from IT into OT networks and automated scanning of internet-exposed OT devices
• The risk exposure created by cloud-connected AI systems with write-back access to control systems
• How confident practitioners are that their current OT security tools can detect and respond to AI-driven attacks
• What role AI should play in ICS/OT cybersecurity today, from analyst decision support to automated detection and alerting
• What's limiting broader AI adoption for ICS/OT defense, including data quality constraints and operational disruption risk

Register now to see how your organization's exposure to AI-enabled OT threats compares to peers across critical infrastructure sectors.