Cloud Range Launches 28-Question OT Cyber Readiness Assessment
Summary
Cloud Range announced a free 28-question assessment to help organizations identify OT incident-response readiness gaps across seven areas, including asset visibility, IT/OT coordination, response, recovery, and validation.
Key points
- The assessment covers seven areas, including understanding OT assets and threats, coordinating IT and OT teams, detecting and investigating incidents, response, recovery, and readiness validation.
- Teams answer each question with “Ready,” “Developing,” or “Unsure”; the assessment does not assign a numerical score and is intended to expose gaps and differing assumptions.
- The article notes that actions such as isolating a system may require operational evaluation in OT environments because decisions can affect equipment, production, and safety.
- Cloud Range says its cyber range supports flat and Purdue-model industrial networks, hardware-in-the-loop lab equipment, and simulations involving threats such as ransomware and supply-chain compromise.
- Cloud Range reports improvements of up to 66% in mean time to detect and 30% in incident-response time across customer engagements, while noting these results are not specific to OT environments.
Article Details
- Event Type
- Cloud Range introduced a free, 28-question OT Cyber Readiness Assessment for organizations to evaluate incident-response preparedness.
- Impact
- The assessment is intended to help IT, security, OT, and engineering teams identify preparedness gaps and coordination issues. The article reports no specific cyber incident or direct operational impact from the launch.
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Cloud Range OT Cyber RangeThe Cloud Range OT Cyber Range supports flat and Purdue-model industrial network architectures, allowing teams to investigate how connectivity, segmentation, and system dependencies influence attack progression andCloud Range OT Cyber Readiness AssessmentTo help organizations evaluate their preparedness, Cloud Range today introduced the Cloud Range OT Cyber Readiness Assessment, a free, 28-question resource designed to identify potential gaps in OT incident response
Industries
Critical infrastructurePalo Alto Networks’ 2026 State of Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Report found that 59% of surveyed critical infrastructure organizations experienced a significant security breach in the past year.industrial operationsand prepare to detect, investigate, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents affecting industrial operations.