Predicting the Six Biggest Impacts AI Will Have on OT Cybersecurity

Industrial Equipment News ran the same expert roundup on AI’s impact on OT cybersecurity, reaching the manufacturing and industrial automation audience. My predictions focused on the convergence of agentic AI risk and the machine identity crisis that security teams will face as autonomous systems scale across operational environments.

The core argument remains the same: AI agents need cross-functional access to be useful, they operate around the clock, and they make thousands of decisions per day that no human reviews. Security teams built their monitoring infrastructure around human behavior patterns. The moment organizations deploy AI agents with privileged access, they create a category of insider threat that existing tools were never designed to detect.

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