Security operations in industrial environments are entering a new phase of complexity.

As IT and OT systems converge, traditional SOC models are being pushed beyond their original design. Manufacturing plants, processing facilities, and other critical environments operate under constraints rarely encountered in IT—limited maintenance windows, safety-critical processes, legacy infrastructure, and near-zero tolerance for downtime.

Yet many organizations continue to apply IT-centric tooling and governance models to industrial risk. Monitoring may exist, but decision rights, escalation paths, and recovery playbooks often remain unclear when production systems are involved. The resulting gap is not merely technical — it is operational.

During a live incident, the distance between detection and response — between security and plant operations — quickly translates into business disruption, safety exposure, and reputational risk.

Dilson Mesquita, Global Domain Leader for Security Operations at Kyndryl, and Vitor Sena, CISO at Gerdau, will share perspectives from both the service provider and enterprise sides of OT SOC development. Their discussion will focus on operating model design, governance decisions, cross-functional alignment, and the realities of scaling security across distributed industrial environments.

This closed-door roundtable will bring together senior IT, OT, and security leaders for a candid exchange on how OT SOC models are evolving in practice — moving beyond monitoring toward true operational resilience:

• What meaningful OT visibility looks like beyond asset discovery
• How incident response shifts when safety and uptime take precedence
• Where governance and accountability break down in IT-OT convergence
• How to scale monitoring and response consistently across multiple industrial sites