Industrial organizations have trusted automation to govern physical processes for decades, but OT security operations have not yet reached the same standard of trust. That gap needs to close faster than most OT security programs have planned for. Threats now operate at machine speed, and AI-assisted vulnerability discovery is compressing the compliance timeline: more findings, arriving sooner, with shorter fix and reporting windows.

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Nozomi Networks views OT security operations as heading toward autonomy: agentic AI performing continuous collection, correlation, reconciliation, and evidence management, with engineers and analysts remaining firmly in the loop for anything that touches the process. This is not autonomy pursued for its own sake, but autonomy made necessary by the economics of manual OT security operations.

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For asset owners, the relevant question is not whether this shift arrives, but what should be in place before it does. This session presents the direction of the Vantage platform and the upcoming capabilities that will help you prepare for safe, autonomous OT security operations.

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Topics include:

• Why machine-speed threats and an accelerating compliance timeline are pushing OT security toward autonomy
• What "agentic" safely means in OT today, and how Vantage is evolving from passive asset intelligence toward active, agentic AI
• Priorities for the next four quarters, including Nozomi Compass, an OT-native service management capability

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