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Businesses and emergency services faced outages nationwide as a Telstra mobile failure exposed the risks of Australia's concentrated carrier market.
The acquisitions deepen Accenture's push into industrial cyber defence as it targets power grids, pipelines and data centres.
Plant operators can now connect mixed equipment more easily as Yokogawa adds multi-vendor support and tighter security to its OpreX server.
Customers gain broader visibility over unmanaged devices as Dragos adds Phosphorus software to its OT security platform.
It targets operators where outages can threaten safety and continuity, as industrial and healthcare environments face faster-moving AI-driven attacks.
Critical infrastructure operators could gain broader visibility as Dragos adds Phosphorus tools for managing exposed connected devices across OT networks.
Industrial operators are turning to tighter network controls to curb cyberattacks, with OT now featuring in 26% of Zero Networks deals.
A decade of support has helped operators keep rail, power and factory systems running on Linux without frequent upgrades.
Power and water operators will gain OT-specific patching tools as Emerson adds OPSWAT technology to its Ovation platform globally.
Ransomware hit manufacturers hardest in 2025 as incidents climbed 56 per cent, with ageing factory systems and suppliers widening exposure.
Customers can now spot hidden operational technology and IoT devices without extra hardware, helping close risky blind spots across mixed networks.
Politically charged cyber-physical attacks surge as low-tech intrusions hit industrial control systems linked to Iran- and Russia-backed groups.
Schneider Electric launches EcoStruxure Foxboro SDA, an open software-defined DCS aimed at flexible, hardware-agnostic industrial control.
Manifest unveils SBOM generator for unmanaged C and C++ code, tackling critical supply chain blind spots in embedded and safety systems.
Operators of essential services will need to manage AI, legacy systems and supplier risks under staged obligations due in 2027 and 2028.
Bourbon production in Bardstown now has plant-wide digital controls, giving Heaven Hill quicker fault-finding, better visibility and future AI room.
The platform is now used across 16 NHS organisations as services expand heart failure, COPD and virtual ward monitoring into community care.
NHS technology teams are facing mounting pressure as leaders warn that patchy standards and duplication are slowing better patient care.
Interest in patient data sharing remained high, as about 200 people heard NHS and care leaders debate barriers to shared records at Rewired 2026.
Honda aims to cut costly production stoppages, as outages can run above USD $100,000 an hour in manufacturing and disrupt plant operations.
