Zero Networks Announces Rapid Growth in OT Microsegmentation Adoption Among Industrial Enterprises

Top global industrial enterprises select Zero Networks to accelerate OT segmentation, reduce cyber risk, improve resilience, and secure converged IT/OT environments

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zero Networks, the leading provider of Zero Trust security solutions, today announced customer momentum in Operational Technology (OT), as leading industrial enterprises increasingly select the company to accelerate OT segmentation initiatives and modernize cyber resilience strategies. Adoption includes multiple top 20 global manufacturing companies, underscoring rising market demand for OT security solutions that prevent ransomware spread, contain cyber incidents, and protect uptime without disrupting production. Zero Networks has achieved 80% year-over-year growth in OT customers, now supporting OT customers across manufacturing, energy, utilities, and transportation sectors.

Zero Networks’ rapid growth reflects a broader market shift as manufacturers, energy providers, utilities, and transportation operators seek practical ways to segment industrial networks and secure converged IT and OT environments amid escalating threats and mounting regulatory pressure. Recent incidents underscore the urgency: ransomware attacks have disrupted manufacturing operations at companies like Jaguar Land Rover, halting production across multiple plants and driving billions in economic impact, while attacks on airport and transportation systems have forced critical operations into manual mode. At the same time, nation-state actors are actively targeting industrial control systems in energy and water infrastructure, demonstrating how a single compromise can cascade into operational disruption including blackouts, water supply interruption and manufacturing shutdown. In OT environments, the impact is not just data loss—but downtime, safety risk and revenue disruption.

“Most industrial organizations haven’t implemented meaningful OT segmentation at all—not because they don’t see the risk, but because traditional approaches have been too complex and disruptive,” said Benny Lakunishok, CEO & Co-Founder of Zero Networks. “Organizations need a simple, safe way to contain threats without impacting operations. That’s why leading enterprises are turning to Zero Networks to bring microsegmentation into OT environments—quickly reducing risk without disrupting production.”

Rapid Growth Across Industrial Markets

Additional business momentum includes:

• 26% of net new deals now include OT environments
• 37% of customers initially deployed Zero Networks in IT and later expanded into OT
• Customers average 6 sites or plants per deployment

These trends demonstrate increasing demand for a unified security model that spans enterprise IT systems and industrial operations.

OT Segmentation Becomes a Business Priority

Industrial organizations face a growing set of operational and cybersecurity challenges, including:

• Rising ransomware and nation-state attacks targeting industrial environments
• Increased IT/OT convergence expanding attack surfaces
• NIS2 requirements across EU critical sectors, increasing the focus on resilience, risk management, incident reporting, supply chain security, and executive accountability
• High financial impact from unplanned downtime or production disruption
• Legacy systems that cannot support traditional endpoint-based security tools

As a result, OT segmentation, containment, and lateral movement prevention have become top priorities alongside detection. For EU organizations, NIS2 makes this even more urgent: industrial security is no longer just about visibility or response, but proving that critical operations can withstand, contain, and recover from cyber incidents. Microsegmentation helps support that shift by limiting blast radius, enforcing least privilege across IT/OT environments, and reducing the likelihood that one compromised system disrupts production or essential services.

About Zero Networks

Zero Networks helps organizations prevent attacks, minimize blast radius, and maintain business continuity – even when attackers get inside. By making every connection verified and intentional through identity-driven microsegmentation, Zero Networks tightly limits lateral movement, reduces operational risk, and strengthens cyber resilience. The platform deploys quickly and enforces adaptive, automated policies that eliminate manual management, technology sprawl, and long-term operational debt. The result is simpler, more resilient security that lowers cost and complexity while enabling organizations to scale, preserve uptime, protect revenue, and meet compliance requirements as environments evolve. Learn more at zeronetworks.com.

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