Factory floors are increasingly the first target and the last thing to get secured. Cloud-connected sensors, ERP systems pushing data directly to production equipment and contractor VPN credentials that persist long after a job is done have expanded the OT attack surface significantly. Artificial intelligence is now running the same attack chains that used to take days in under an hour, autonomously, before a SOC analyst finishes their first coffee.

This session, led by Julian Galley, senior solutions engineer at Zscaler, will cover:

• Why standing contractor access with no enforcement, monitoring or segmentation is the most common OT attack path, and how privileged remote access replaces it;
• How agentless zero trust segmentation containing lateral movement can be deployed across 90-plus device types with zero minutes of production downtime;
• How OT deception provides zero-false-positive intrusion detection before attackers reach anything real.