HONEYWELL
OT CYBERSECURITY
2025 THREAT REPORT
Our 2025 report found ransomware attacks targeting industrial operators surged 46%. Discover the latest OT security threats, vulnerabilities and how we can help.
Improving Operational Technology (OT)
Cybersecurity and Reducing Risk
Leveraging our deep experience in industrial and building automation to deliver complete end-to-end OT cybersecurity solutions that enable your business outcomes.
20+ Years
OT Cybersecurity expertise
7000+ Cyber Projects
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Case Study: Protecting Honeywell From Cyber Threats
See how Honeywell protects more than 400 of our sites with our own next-gen OT Cybersecurity platform
OT Cybersecurity Solutions That Enable Business Outcomes
Cybercriminals and nation-state actors are targeting and impacting critical infrastructure entities globally. With an increased attack and threat surface, governments and regulatory bodies seek policies to better secure connected OT and industrial networks. Honeywell OT cybersecurity solutions are designed to help businesses improve compliance with industry regulations and standards.
Cyber Insights: Provides passive and active monitoring for OT/ICS network visibility, asset inventory and threat detection as required by many industry regulations.
Professional Services: Offers more than 30 OT cybersecurity services designed to help customers protect their ability to maintain continuous operations and improve the safety of their facilities.
Honeywell Secure Media Exchange (SMX): Helps secure USB ports by blocking unauthorized devices while allowing approved ones. It helps protect against USB-borne malware and meet regulatory and compliance requirements for removeable media and device usage.
Managing and efficiently reducing OT cybersecurity risks requires a holistic approach and an understanding of priorities. Honeywell OT cybersecurity solutions and services can help mitigate threats and better protect assets, operations and people.
OT SOC: Provides 24/7 OT cybersecurity monitoring and rapid incident response to help detect threats early and analyze anomalies before damage occurs.
Proactive Defense: Enables continuous monitoring, advanced threat hunting and expert analysis using and machine learning to detect OT cyber threats early, reduce false positives and secure OT networks.
Threat Intelligence: Delivers deep industrial threat insights using our OT expertise and Google Threat Intelligence (GTI) to provide greater visibility, detection and response capabilities.
It can be challenging to properly prevent, withstand and recover from a cyber incident. By identifying potential cyber risks early and taking the necessary preventative measures to address them, your enterprise can build the resilience necessary to more quickly respond to and recover from a cyber incident.
Cyber Insights: Provides passive and active monitoring for OT/ICS network visibility, asset tracking, traffic analysis and near real-time threat detection.
Honeywell Secure Media Exchange (SMX): Uses on-prem hardware solutions, backed by threat intelligence software, to help security personnel scan and quarantine removable media before entering an industrial site to stop threats before they enter your systems.
Managed Security Services: Helps you design more secure networks and implement the right layers of defense across your operations while also helping to improve the competency of your team even if they’re not OT experts.
Key Resources
OT Cybersecurity Frequently Asked Questions
OT Cybersecurity is the practice of protecting Operational technology (OT) from cyber threats. OT refers to the broad range of devices, hardware and software that monitors and controls physical processes or assets. This can include industrial control systems, building management systems, fire control systems and field devices like sensors and valves, as well as assets such as manufacturing equipment, boilers and chillers.
OT has many characteristics that differ from traditional IT systems, with the main differences being the purpose and priorities of the systems. Let’s compare an Engineering Workstation (EWS) to a normal business use laptop. While they may both use a Microsoft Windows operating system, an EWS could be critical to the operations of a manufacturing line, processing plant, or safety system. The EWS device often cannot be simply restarted for a new patch like a traditional business machine used for word processing or email. Instead, updating these systems requires a careful plan and patch management policy, including validation with system vendors, a recorded baseline, and a rollback plan to protect business continuity and maintain safety.
Any industry using OT systems should have a dedicated strategy to protect these assets in their cybersecurity program. Industries considered “critical infrastructure” by governments and regulators, such as energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and manufacturing, may also be required to comply with specific OT security regulations.
The threats facing OT environments range widely in both sophistication and impact from nation states targeting critical infrastructure, hacktivists with ideological goals, insider threats from employees, supply chain attacks and malware pivoting from IT networks. In The 2025 Honeywell Cyber Threat Report, we found that ransomware attacks targeting industrial operators jumped 46% in the first quarter of 2025.
Depending on the countries and industries in which your organizations operates, there may be regulations that require reporting of OT cybersecurity breaches within a specific timeframe.
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