Cybersecurity leaders Nozomi Networks and Sophos have announced a strategic cooperation aimed at overcoming the IT-OT security operational gap that has been a point of frustration for many years. A new and specially designed interoperability is enabling the Nozomi Networks Vantage, a cloud-first security solution with AI features for OT and CPS, to be connected with Sophos Fusion, an AI cybersecurity platform.
This partnership is one of the first prominent outside integrations for technology to be launched on Sophos Fusion. This shows that Sophos is dedicated to creating and promoting of an open and tightly-knit cybersecurity environment with partners. The integration of Nozomi’s OT data such as telemetry, details about different types of assets and threat indicators into the Sophos Fusion makes use of that data which helps Security Operations Centers (SOC) analysts track and respond to events quickly and accurately, by combining IT and OT systems, without the need to switch back and forth contexts to different consoles.
Mitigating Escalating Cyber Risks Across Critical Infrastructure
Industrial organizations and critical infrastructure operators face unprecedented security challenges as nation-state actors and cybercriminal groups intensify attacks on connected operational environments. Because many high-impact industrial disruptions originate from initial compromises within corporate IT networks, maintaining unified, cross-domain observability has become essential.
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By feeding Nozomi’s OT context into Sophos’ defense architecture, enterprise security teams can correlate industrial threat signals with telemetry spanning endpoints, networks, identities, and multi-cloud environments.
“The intersection of IT and OT environments has long been misunderstood by the cybersecurity industry, leading to inefficiencies and potential danger for critical infrastructure,” said Matt Cowell, Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Nozomi Networks. “This partnership helps solve these problems by seamlessly integrating OT intelligence into IT security investigations so teams have the full picture when assessing their increasingly expanding attack surface.”
Streamlining Investigation Workflows and Security Automation
The technical integration delivers several key operational advantages for enterprise SOC teams and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs):
Contextual Data Correlation: Unifies OT asset intelligence with endpoint, network, and cloud telemetry inside a single pane of glass.
Accelerated Incident Response: Eliminates the need for security analysts to manually pivot between disjointed software consoles during active investigations.
Automated Orchestration: Enables security teams to leverage Nozomi’s OT data within automated Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) playbooks for continuous threat enrichment and rapid mitigation.
MSSP Efficiency: Empowers service providers to extend existing IT security offerings into manufacturing and industrial sectors without introducing complex operational overhead.
“Defenders need every resource they can to combat sophisticated threat actors. This partnership helps security teams easily assess OT and IT vulnerabilities in one place, allowing them to take action much faster,” said Chris Bell, senior vice president of global channel and alliances at Sophos. “Following the launch of Sophos Fusion, this is a testament to our commitment to bring best-of-breed security technologies into a single defense system for superior threat detection, investigation, and response.”