Zero Networks has announced strong momentum in the Operational Technology (OT) sector, with leading industrial enterprises adopting its platform to accelerate OT segmentation and strengthen cyber resilience. The company reports adoption by multiple top 20 global manufacturers, reflecting growing demand for OT security solutions that help prevent ransomware spread, contain cyber incidents, and protect operational uptime without disrupting production. Zero Networks has also achieved 80% year-over-year growth in OT customers across manufacturing, energy, utilities, and transportation industries.
Zero Networks’ rapid growth reflects a broader market shift as manufacturers, energy providers, utilities, and transportation operators seek practical ways to segment industrial networks and secure converged IT and OT environments amid escalating threats and mounting regulatory pressure.
Recent incidents underscore the urgency: ransomware attacks have disrupted manufacturing operations at companies like Jaguar Land Rover, halting production across multiple plants and driving billions in economic impact, while attacks on airport and transportation systems have forced critical operations into manual mode.
At the same time, nation-state actors are actively targeting industrial control systems in energy and water infrastructure, demonstrating how a single compromise can cascade into operational disruption including blackouts, water supply interruption and manufacturing shutdown. In OT environments, the impact is not just data loss—but downtime, safety risk and revenue disruption.
“Most industrial organizations haven’t implemented meaningful OT segmentation at all—not because they don’t see the risk, but because traditional approaches have been too complex and disruptive,” said Benny Lakunishok, CEO & Co-Founder of Zero Networks. “Organizations need a simple, safe way to contain threats without impacting operations. That’s why leading enterprises are turning to Zero Networks to bring microsegmentation into OT environments—quickly reducing risk without disrupting production.”
Rapid Growth Across Industrial Markets
Additional business momentum includes:
- 26% of net new deals now include OT environments
- 37% of customers initially deployed Zero Networks in IT and later expanded into OT
- Customers average 6 sites or plants per deployment
These trends demonstrate increasing demand for a unified security model that spans enterprise IT systems and industrial operations.
OT Segmentation Becomes a Business Priority
Industrial organizations face a growing set of operational and cybersecurity challenges, including:
- Rising ransomware and nation-state attacks targeting industrial environments
- Increased IT/OT convergence expanding attack surfaces
- NIS2 requirements across EU critical sectors, increasing the focus on resilience, risk management, incident reporting, supply chain security, and executive accountability
- High financial impact from unplanned downtime or production disruption
- Legacy systems that cannot support traditional endpoint-based security tools
As a result, OT segmentation, containment, and lateral movement prevention have become top priorities alongside detection. For EU organizations, NIS2 makes this even more urgent: industrial security is no longer just about visibility or response, but proving that critical operations can withstand, contain, and recover from cyber incidents.
Microsegmentation helps support that shift by limiting blast radius, enforcing least privilege across IT/OT environments, and reducing the likelihood that one compromised system disrupts production or essential services.
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