AI on Both Sides of the OT Firewall
Brussels just put AI on both sides of the plant firewall. Read from the control room, the EU's new Cyber-AI Action Plan is part threat model, part toolkit.
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OT security
Articles tagged “OT security” on the Zoniax blog — field notes on industrial operations intelligence.
Scoring Your CRA Readiness From the Plant Floor
ENISA just shipped a five-domain maturity model for the Cyber Resilience Act, and read against a real processing line it works less like a scorecard than a gap list.
The Cyber Resilience Act's 24-Hour Clock at the Edge
From 11 September 2026, the maker of every connected industrial device owes Europe an early warning within 24 hours of an exploited flaw - and the plant is usually where that flaw is seen first.
Running LLMs at the Edge Inside the Plant
A field note on putting a language model in the rack: the hardware, the memory-bandwidth wall, the heat, and why the box never closes a control loop.
Agentic AI on the Plant Floor: What the Demos Skip
Six claims that ride in on the agentic AI procurement deck, and why each one breaks against a deterministic control room.
Industrial Data Governance: Owning OT Data
Who owns the data your machines produce, who may see it, and how to keep it trustworthy from the sensor to the boardroom.
NIS2 for Industrial Operators: What EU Plants Must Do
How the EU's NIS2 directive turns into concrete OT controls on a processing plant floor, built in the order that actually works.