Yokogawa Engineering Asia has launched an Industrial Cyber Resilience Center (ICRC) in Singapore to strengthen operational technology cybersecurity across South East Asia, Oceania and Taiwan.
The centre will provide industrial operators with cybersecurity assessments, workforce training and simulated crisis exercises designed to identify capability gaps and improve their response to cyber incidents. Its launch comes as the growing convergence of IT and operational technology (OT) expands the potential attack surface across critical infrastructure and industrial facilities.
AI is also increasing the speed and scale at which threat actors can identify vulnerabilities, automate attacks and employ deceptive tactics. This raises the operational stakes for asset-intensive sectors including energy, water, chemicals, manufacturing and data centres, where a cyber incident can disrupt production, damage physical assets or compromise worker safety.
Many industrial organisations continue to operate legacy systems while relying on IT-focused response plans that do not fully account for the safety, availability and continuity requirements of OT environments. Yokogawa’s new centre seeks to close this gap by helping operators test how their people, processes and security controls perform under realistic cyber-physical conditions.
The ICRC’s framework begins with an assessment of an organisation’s cybersecurity maturity, vulnerabilities and existing capabilities. Yokogawa will then provide customised training and support organisations in developing procedures aligned with industry regulations, while improving coordination between operational, technical and management teams.
The final component uses Yokogawa’s OT Security Simulator, cyber drills and ResilienceScore solutions to test whether organisations can detect, respond to and recover from incidents while maintaining safe and reliable operations.
Chay Kin Wah, president and CEO of Yokogawa Engineering Asia, said the centre represents an investment in both technical capabilities and workforce development across IT and OT environments.
“Our goal is to help organisations build cyber resilience, enabling them to operate securely and innovate with confidence,” he said.
The initiative reflects a shift in industrial cybersecurity from a predominantly preventive approach towards operational resilience. While many companies have invested in technologies intended to block attacks, fewer regularly test their capacity to make decisions, coordinate stakeholders and restore operations during an actual incident.
This is important in OT settings, where incident response must consider production continuity, asset integrity and physical safety alongside data and network security. A technically successful response may still carry operational consequences if equipment is shut down incorrectly or recovery procedures are poorly coordinated.
Charles Lim, head of digital security solution at Yokogawa Engineering Asia, said a major challenge facing industrial organisations was “not the lack of cybersecurity technologies”, but their capacity to recognise abnormal conditions and respond effectively.
He added that the centre would test organisational preparedness under realistic conditions while strengthening coordination across supply chains and interconnected operational networks.
Located at Yokogawa’s Singapore office, the ICRC positions the city-state as the base for the company’s regional industrial cybersecurity services. Its wider impact will depend on whether the centre can translate simulated exercises and assessments into measurable improvements in response times, workforce readiness and operational recovery across industrial sites.