Cloud Range launches assessment to gauge OT incident readiness

Cloud Range introduced a free, 28-question OT Cyber Readiness Assessment on 10 November 2026 to help organisations identify gaps in their response to cyber incidents affecting operational technology. The assessment covers seven areas: understanding OT assets and connections, assessing threats and operational consequences, coordinating IT and OT teams, detecting and investigating suspicious activity, responding safely, recovering operations and testing readiness.

Each area has three questions, answered “Ready”, “Developing” or “Unsure”. Rather than producing a numerical score, it is designed to reveal uncertainties and differences in understanding among IT, security, OT and engineering staff.

Cloud Range said the assessment is intended as a starting point, not proof that teams can perform effectively during an attack. Its CEO, Debbie Gordon, said organisations may have plans, tools and experienced staff without knowing how well they will work together when operations are affected.

The company cited Dragos research that around 3,300 industrial organisations were affected by ransomware in 2025, and Palo Alto Networks research finding that 59% of surveyed critical infrastructure organisations had experienced a significant breach in the past year; 74% had not fully integrated IT and OT security operations. Cloud Range said response choices such as isolating a system can have physical and operational consequences, making coordination with OT and engineering staff important.

The company offers attack simulations and cyber-range exercises for further validation, but reported performance improvements of up to 66% in detection time and up to 30% in response time across broader customer programmes, not specifically OT environments.