A cyber breach at an industrial facility may enable a bad actor to move actuators that can trip a switch at a power plant to deny electricity to an entire city. Cybersecurity is a race that has for over a decade been extended to include systems that run the world’s industrial facilities, where a breach can compromise more than data. The attack surface in the OT environment is vast and vulnerabilities abound. With hundreds or even thousands of known vulnerabilities, OT owner operators are left dealing with the dilemma of security versus uninterrupted production.
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/05/18/ot-asset-vulnerabilities-industrial-operations/