Cyber resilience across domains: an in-depth exploration of cybersecurity practices and paradigms from the home environment to Operational Technology (OT)

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T Sakthivel and K Balasubramanian propose a cross-domain cyber defence framework spanning homes, office networks and industrial control systems in 2026 work. Smart home devices, company systems and factory controls now link up, growing the attack surface for ransomware, insider threats and protocol exploits. Defences built for one domain rarely share warnings with the others, leaving multi-stage attacks hard to spot.

Their system fuses telemetry from all three domains, watches behaviour for anomalies without relying on known attack patterns, scores risk with weighted chances and steers adaptive responses. Tests across mixed data covering break-ins, botnets and factory feeds showed it caught most attacks with few false alarms. Response ran about twice as fast as older methods in their experiments. Head-to-head tests favoured the system over three rival approaches.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/PMC13447924