TAG Publishes New Security Quarterly: Operational Technology Gets Its Moment
TAG Publishes New Security Quarterly: Operational Technology Gets Its Moment
Publish Date: 2026-05-28 08:19:00
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New York, New York–(Newsfile Corp. – May 28, 2026) – Tag Infosphere has released its new security quarterly focusing on Operational technology (OT). OT is the workhorse behind the scenes. It’s the electric grid, sewage substations, oil pipelines. It’s the infrastructure that keeps countries going. It’s also targeted frequently by nation-states and cyber criminals of all kinds. The latest issue of TAG’s I Security Quarterly features seven articles that demonstrate the diversity of challenges OT environments have faced and are now facing-including today in Iran.
“OT Security Out of the Shadows” explores some of the early security breaches that were foundational in this field, like the Stuxnet attack the United States and Israel launched against the centrifuges Iran was using more than 25 years ago to enrich uranium. As TAG CEO Edward Amoroso wrote, it was “the first publicly known cyberattack to cause deliberate, physical destruction of targeted industrial equipment.”
The current war in Iran is bringing those memories back, and Amoroso reviewed what made that attack so startling, and why nothing of that caliber has been repeated since. He added that he thinks that’s likely to change: “Stuxnet not only can happen again but probably will soon.”
An article by TAG’s analysts delves into the current conflict in Iran, which of course features the same three antagonists, and Iran’s critical infrastructure is once again being targeted. This article attempts to determine if the U.S. and Iran are coordinating their respective kinetic and cyber operations; and if so, in what way? And what can we conclude about this growing area of modern warfare?
Another article is an interview with Joe Weiss, an OT pioneer whose background is in engineering. He talked about another early event that proved how damaging these attacks can be. In 2007, the Idaho National Laboratory conducted an experiment to see if it could destroy a generator remotely through a cyberattack. The lab…
