Nozomi Networks and Sophos connect IT and OT security

Nozomi Networks and Sophos are connecting their security platforms to give customers a more unified view of threats moving across IT and operational technology environments. The integration brings data from Nozomi Networks Vantage into Sophos Fusion, where security teams can correlate OT telemetry, asset intelligence and threat data with information from endpoints, networks, cloud systems and identities.

The move addresses a growing operational problem for organizations running industrial environments. A compromise that starts on the IT side can eventually affect OT systems, yet security teams often investigate the two environments using separate tools and data sources. Bringing Nozomi’s OT context into Sophos Fusion gives analysts more information about industrial assets during an investigation without requiring them to move between consoles.

The integration also extends into automation. Security teams will be able to use Nozomi data within Sophos Fusion workflows for enrichment and response, including SOAR processes. For MSPs and MSSPs supporting customers with manufacturing, critical infrastructure or other OT environments, that could make it easier to incorporate industrial security into existing monitoring and response services while reducing some of the manual work involved in pulling together information from separate systems.

The partnership is also an early example of how Sophos plans to expand Fusion through third-party integrations. For service providers, the broader question will be how much OT context Sophos can bring into the same workflows they already use for IT security and how easily those capabilities can be managed across multiple customers. As IT and OT environments become more connected, integrations like this give providers another path to extend security operations into industrial environments without creating a separate investigation process.