OT and IoT environments continue to be prime targets for increasingly sophisticated threat actors. At the same time, vulnerabilities in critical environments have surged by up to 230%, dramatically increasing exposure. The reality is clear: OT/IoT systems are both highly targeted and highly vulnerable. In this environment, security teams need context, control, and confidence to respond decisively — and that is exactly what our Q2 2026 platform updates deliver.
This quarter, Nozomi Networks is delivering significant advances across Vantage IQ, AI-powered integrations, and Guardian Air, designed to turn hours of investigation into minutes, expand visibility beyond the wired network, and help security teams move faster with less effort.
But first, here’s a look at how security teams are already using Vantage IQ today, so you can see what’s possible, and how it might fit into your own workflows.
How Security Teams are Using Vantage IQ
Adoption of Vantage IQ continues to accelerate across industries and roles. Users aren't just kicking the tires — they're returning to it repeatedly. We’ve seen a steady growth in both customer adoption and user interactions.
Across energy, maritime, healthcare, aviation, and manufacturing, Vantage IQ has moved well beyond a feature to try and into a tool teams depend on daily.
The pattern is consistent: on average, a user has 16 follow-up interactions per unique session — a strong signal that Vantage IQ is delivering answers worth exploring further, not just surface-level summaries.
Here’s a look at the most common questions being asked within Vantage IQ:
The Vantage IQ Widget: Context-aware AI, embedded where decisions happen
Now available
Vantage IQ is now available as a widget directly within the Vantage UI — and it's self-aware. Open it on the Vulnerabilities page, and it knows you're looking at CVE details. Navigate to Alerts and it surfaces prompts specific to the alerts on screen. It follows you across assets, alerts, and investigations without requiring a page switch, and can be docked, moved, or resized to fit any workflow. This dramatically reduces time-to-resolution by bringing contextual AI guidance exactly where decisions are being made.
Personas: Tailor your AI assistants to the role
Coming Q2 2026
Vantage IQ Personas will allow users to define how AI responds based on their specific role and priorities. Custom personas can be configured to help you to generate reports, track compliance metrics, analyze alerts and so on. They can be tailored with specific instructions, preferred output formats, and more, so responses consistently align with role-specific language and workflows.
Exportable Reporting: AI-generated reports you can take straight into a meeting
Coming Q2 2026
Vantage IQ outputs will soon be exportable into structured documents and reports, with additional formats planned as capabilities expand. Whether it is a vulnerability summary for leadership or an incident timeline for a post-mortem, you will be able to take AI-generated analysis directly into customer meetings and leadership reviews without reformatting.
Trial Vantage IQ Today
Any Vantage admin can activate a Vantage IQ trial directly from the platform — no request required. Go to Settings → Licenses and select "Start Trial." The trial runs for 30 days. Reach out to your account team if you need more time to evaluate.
AI-accelerated Technology Integrations
SOC teams have traditionally relied on technology integrations to feed data into SIEMs or ticketing systems - but that is never the full picture. Some of the most critical asset and security-relevant telemetry lives in tools deployed across your environment, from EDR and vulnerability management platforms to IT asset databases — and it rarely makes it to the SIEM.
With the new AI-powered integration builder, Nozomi Vantage can now ingest data and context from virtually any tool or custom dataset, transforming it into a unified foundation for OT/IoT asset intelligence, risk modeling, and AI-driven analysis. As a result, security teams can now:
- Enrich assets with data from EDR, IT, and security tools
- Improve risk visibility — even when passive and active network monitoring is not fully deployed
Integrations Built in Days, Not Weeks
The Integration Accelerator leverages vendor APIs and publicly available documentation to rapidly build bi-directional integrations. What previously took weeks of manual effort can now be built, tested, published, and updated in just days. In fact, in Q1 2026 alone, more than 30 integrations were built or updated using this approach.
New Integrations Dashboard: at-a-glance integration health and activity
New
The new integrations dashboard page provides a centralized, real-time view of how your connected tools are performing. Quickly see configured importers and exporters, last run times, assets enriched or created, and any errors that require attention — all in one place.
Request a New Integration
If there is a tool in your environment we do not yet support, use the “Let Us Know” button in the integrations section of Vantage.
Guardian Air: Making Wireless Risk Visible and Actionable
Wireless threats operate beyond the wired perimeter - and until recently, they have been a major blind spot. Guardian Air extends the Nozomi Networks platform into the wireless spectrum, delivering visibility across Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, WirelessHART, LoRaWAN, cellular, and more. Insights are correlated with asset intelligence, threat intelligence, and AI analytics, and presented directly inside Vantage.
RF Geofencing: define protected zones and get alerts the moment they are crossed
Now Available
The latest Guardian Air release introduces RF geofencing — the most-requested feature since launch. Define physical zones within your facility and receive immediate alerts when any wireless device enters or exits. Whether you are protecting an executive wing, a restricted server room, a clean manufacturing area, or a remote oil and gas site, geofencing turns passive tracking data into actionable, real-time response. Initial support covers 802.11 (Wi-Fi), built on Guardian Air's existing triangulation engine.
Wireless Networks: The Overlooked Attack Surface
Every six months, Nozomi Networks Labs analyzes threat and vulnerability data from tens of thousands of global honeypots, wireless sensors, customer environments, and industry partnerships. The February 2025 report delivers a clear message: the wireless attack surface is critically under protected—and the risks to essential infrastructure are rising fast.
“94% of wireless networks lack adequate protection against de-authentication attacks.”
Source: "OT/IoT Cybersecurity Trends and Insights," Nozomi Networks Labs, February, 2025
As industries increasingly depend on wireless technologies for critical operations, limited visibility into over-the-air communications leaves organizations exposed. De-authentication attacks — simple to execute and highly disruptive — can disconnect devices, enable man-in-the-middle scenarios, and halt operations, yet most industrial networks lack the ability to detect or respond to them.
The impact is real. In industrial settings, these attacks can stop production lines or create safety risks; in healthcare, they can expose sensitive data or disrupt critical systems.
For organizations across manufacturing, energy, and healthcare, the takeaway is clear: wireless infrastructure is widely relied upon, rarely monitored, and increasingly targeted. That gap is where attacks happen — exactly what Guardian Air is designed to close.
What You Can Detect and Protect With Guardian Air
Faster Decisions, Broader Coverage, Stronger Security
Together, these platform updates reinforce a meaningful shift in what OT and IoT security can look like in practice — not just more alerting, but a platform that actively accelerates the work security teams are already doing:
- AI That's Embedded and Role-Aware. Vantage IQ is not a separate tool to navigate to — it is woven into every investigation, every screen, and every workflow.
- Integrations That Expand Visibility Instantly. Asset context from your broader security ecosystem is now a native input to Vantage, not an afterthought.
- Wireless Security That's No Longer Invisible. Guardian Air brings the same depth of OT/IoT visibility that Guardian delivers for wired networks, extended across the full RF spectrum, and correlated with threat intelligence in real time.
Get started today:
- Activate your free 30-day Vantage IQ trial. Available directly within the Nozomi platform under Settings → Licenses.
- Get wireless visibility. Speak with your account team to explore real-world RF security use cases and how Guardian Air can help.
