80% of critical infrastructure organizations experienced ransomware attacks, leading to loss in revenue per hour of downtime to their operations averaging $500,000 or more. Michael Schlachter, solution engineer for Australia and New Zealand at Claroty, shared these startling figures from a survey the security company conducted. He discusses the security challenges greater connectivity brings to critical infrastructure organizations’ OT networks as they link more assets within the extended internet of things (XIoT), and the ways they can work to become more operationally resilient.