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The CRA may influence suppliers, asset owners and customers to expect cybersecurity to become a product characteristic throughout its lifecycle.

Welcome to the October 2026 issue of the International Society of Automation’s online magazine, Automation.com Monthly, the annual roundup of OT Cybersecurity Trends. Learn how to secure connected legacy systems, prepare to resist quantum-computer-enabled decryption, manage end-of-life IoT devices, and more. Discover what the EU Cyber Resilience Act means for asset owners and automation suppliers. Access global research on industrial cybersecurity vulnerabilities, mitigations, and protection strategies. Discover resources for staying up to date on OT cybersecurity strategies at every level.

Data poisoning reduces AI accuracy by influencing what an industrial system learns and how it responds to inputs.

Following the creation of CISA guidance for asset owners, a group of authors created a document for automation suppliers about how they might improve their OT cybersecurity offerings. OPC UA brings strong cybersecurity protections to the entire automation industry.

In the face of rising AI-enabled critical infrastructure threats, industrials average 16 hours of downtime and up to $500,000 in losses from significant cyber incidents, says the report.

How will aligning Switzerland’s regulations with the CRA impact Swiss manufacturers and customers?

Water shortages now rank as high as cyberattacks and supply chain disruption for industrial business continuity.

Manufacturers who build ISA/IEC 62443 into their secure development lifecycle can turn the EU Cyber Resilience Act into a passport to the European market and a stronger position worldwide.

For years, cybersecurity strategies in manufacturing focused primarily on protecting corporate IT systems while keeping production environments largely isolated from external networks. That model is being challenged as manufacturers create more connections between operational technology (OT) and enterprise systems to support business-wide initiatives.

A controller connected to the Internet is exposed by design. The practical response is architectural: close the comm path and move process data through a controlled connection

How to develop an OT cybersecurity roadmap to transition to PQC algorithms designed to resist quantum-computer-enabled decryption.

The ability to fill cybersecurity roles requires rethinking hiring strategies, investing in reskilling and implementing tools like AI.

Agilicus and ISAGCA to work together to advance OT cybersecurity.

The article sets three conditions that qualify a task, names six places to start, and argues that the real question is not which model you subscribe to but whether your software platform can give one structured access to its own engineering model.

In addition to a successful backup, nine conditions determine whether OT recovery takes hours, days or weeks.

Industrial companies are increasing cybersecurity investment as connected operations, AI adoption and IT/OT convergence expand operational risk.

This article explores how a resilient software foundation and a microkernel architecture can isolate critical workloads, contain faults, and support lifecycle cybersecurity. It highlights how foundational platforms such as QNX can enable secure and safe software-defined industrial modernization approaches that are essential in building and managing resilient systems throughout the systems lifecycle.

The ISA/IEC 62443 framework, along with DeNexus’ expertise, will enable industries to assess, quantify and assign a cost to risk.

The newly updated Fourth Edition of A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge is the only officially authorized book covering ISA’s body of knowledge core competencies. This revised guide provides an overview of important automation concepts and processes, while also describing the technical skills required to implement them in today’s industrial environment.

Implementing the CRA is an opportunity to achieve higher levels of product security maturity by actively anticipating and preparing to address security issues that may arise throughout a product’s lifecycle.