Bottom line: SOC practices for OT and ICS environments require specialized architectural models and organizational adaptations to meet regulatory requirements such as the NIS2 Directive while ensuring the availability of critical systems.
Traditional Security Operations Centers (SOCs) continue to struggle with the integration of Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Markus Neumaier addresses architectural models and operational playbooks for this integration challenge at the MCTTP conference.
The convergence of IT security and OT environments remains an unsolved problem for many organizations. Traditional SOCs are primarily oriented toward monitoring information technology and do not readily transfer their established processes and tools to industrial control systems. This is partly due to different requirement profiles: while IT security often aims for rapid response times, OT environments require stability and availability as the top priority.
Markus Neumaier addresses this core issue at the MCTTP conference with architectural models that point to a practical path toward integration. Organizational structures, technology selection, and process adaptations play an equally important role. For CISOs and security officers, the concrete challenge is to extend SOC competencies to OT domains without endangering existing production processes.
This is particularly relevant in light of regulatory requirements such as the NIS2 Directive, which brings critical infrastructure into scope and presumes continuous monitoring capability. The playbooks provided at the conference address typical challenges such as instrumentation of heterogeneous systems, normalization of security signals, and cultural transformation between IT and OT teams.
Source: www.security-insider.de · Published 29 July 2026
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