Nozomi Networks and Sophos have announced a strategic partnership to integrate Nozomi Networks Vantage, Nozomi’s cloud-native, AI-enabled operational technology (OT) security platform, with Sophos Fusion, Sophos’ AI-native cybersecurity defence system.
The collaboration aims to unify visibility and threat detection across IT and OT environments, addressing the growing convergence of these traditionally siloed domains.
The integration represents one of the first major third-party technology integrations following the launch of Sophos Fusion, demonstrating Sophos’ commitment to an open ecosystem that brings best-of-breed security technologies into a unified defence system.
Critical infrastructure is facing an aggressive threat landscape as both nation states and cybercriminals increasingly target OT and industrial environments, with many OT outages beginning with a compromise of the IT environment.
As organisations connect more industrial assets and adopt remote management capabilities, complete visibility across both IT and OT environments becomes increasingly important.
“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.” Matt Cowell
The integration brings Nozomi’s OT telemetry, asset intelligence, and threat data directly into Sophos Fusion, where it can be correlated with security data from across the customer’s IT environment without needing to switch contexts. This puts OT intelligence directly where investigations happen, helping security teams work faster and make better decisions.
Key benefits of the partnership
The collaboration delivers several tangible advantages for security operations centres (SOCs) and enterprise defence teams:
- Security data correlation across OT, endpoint, network, cloud, and identity sources
- Improved investigation quality through richer context and correlation
- Greater SOC efficiency through fewer manual processes and less console switching
- Automated enrichment and response through Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) workflows
“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, SVP 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 defence system for superior threat detection, investigation, and response.” Chris Bell
By embedding Nozomi’s AI-enabled Vantage platform within Sophos Fusion, the partnership enables organisations to correlate OT-specific telemetry with broader IT security signals, reducing blind spots and accelerating incident response.
The integration is particularly relevant for critical infrastructure operators, industrial manufacturers, and enterprises managing complex cyber-physical systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, where the convergence of IT and OT creates both operational efficiencies and heightened security risks.
As remote management capabilities expand and industrial assets become more interconnected, the ability to visualise and respond to threats across both domains from a single pane of glass is becoming a strategic imperative. The Nozomi–Sophos integration positions security teams to meet this challenge with enhanced context, automation, and cross-domain intelligence.
