AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, October 5, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — CYBER RANGES and OTIFYD join AUTOMA 2026 Oil & Gas to showcase their joint approach to hybrid operational technology (OT) cybersecurity to help oil and gas organizations move beyond incident response plans and put their readiness to the test within the overall industry transformation.
Since 2025 CYBER RANGES and OTIFYD have brought together complementary cyber and physical capabilities to enable organizations to safely experience and respond to realistic cyber-physical incidents without putting live operations at risk.
The joint approach combines realistic cyberattack simulation with physical OT test environments to help Oil and Gas organizations test their people, processes and recovery before a real incident occurs.
The approach combines CYBER RANGES’ high-fidelity virtual enterprise and OT environments, where teams face realistic adversary tactics and practice detection, investigation and containment, with OTIFYD’s value-added consultancy services, including a Physical Twin Wall, which uses real industrial components including PLCs, HMIs, sensors and actuators to recreate operational environments.
Together, these capabilities extend an exercise from the first signs of a cyberattack through its potential impact on physical processes and ultimately recovery. Cybersecurity, engineering, operations and management teams can train as one organization, testing not only whether they can respond technically, but whether they can make decisions under pressure, maintain safe operations and recover effectively.
Highlighting the importance of hands-on experiential training in building OT resilience, Dr. Almerindo Graziano, CEO of CYBER RANGES, said: “OT resilience cannot be proven on paper or through tabletop exercises only. At CYBER RANGES, deep-dive experiential OT training is already a core part of how we prepare teams. Our collaboration with OTIFYD brings together realistic cyberattack simulation and physical industrial processes so organizations can train their people, test their response and practice recovery safely, before they have to do it for real.”
Ali Bozorgmir, Global Director – OT Security Solutions at OTIFYD, said: “This partnership was born directly from what the market has been asking us for. Organizations want to move beyond generic training environments and to exercise on a hyper-realistic replica of their own OT environments, using real hardware, real software and real-world cyberattack scenarios. That demand has led us to develop our Physical Twin Lab, where teams can safely experience the impact of cyberattacks and practice response and recovery without putting a live plant at risk. Combined with CYBER RANGES’ realistic adversary tactics and attack techniques, we can give OT teams the opportunity to experience the complete attack, response and recovery cycle in an OT-cyber environment that closely reflects the systems they operate.”
At AUTOMA Oil & Gas 2026, CYBER RANGES and OTIFYD bring this approach to the international Oil and Gas community, demonstrating how realistic, repeatable exercises can help organizations identify gaps, validate response and recovery, and build the muscle memory needed when a real incident occurs.
About OTIFYD
OTIFYD is a specialist OT cybersecurity firm focused on protecting critical infrastructure. Headquartered in London, with a presence across Europe and the Middle East, we are built by engineers with factory floor and control room experience. OTIFYD takes a pragmatic, operations-first approach to security, delivering real-world assessments, architecture, incident response, and hands-on training for industrial environments.
About CYBER RANGES
CYBER RANGES is a global vendor that provides a Best-in-Class awarded, next-gen, attack emulation-based synthetic environment for cybersecurity training & practice, capability development, and team-based incident response exercises. For OT and critical infrastructure operators CYBER RANGES offers its OT WORLDS solution integrating physical OT testbed environments, enabling teams to train safely against realistic cyber threats without putting live operations at risk.
CYBER RANGES helps government agencies, military forces, and corporations enhance their digital dexterity and cyber resilience against cyber threats. In Apr. 2022 the U.S. government foundation MITRE Corporation selected CYBER RANGES as the cyber-range-of-choice for MITRE ATT&CK Defender™ and Purple Teaming.
CYBER RANGES operates the Quantico Cyber Range IT / OT Battle Lab in Stafford, Virginia.
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