Risky Business · Tuesday, September 29, 2026
HD Moore explained that Run Zero initially focused on network discovery due to the prevalence of unmanaged devices, which are often the 'Achilles' heel' of networks. The company's scope expanded to Operational Technology (OT) because that equipment is largely unmanaged and doesn't typically run standard security agents.
“And the idea was like, you know, hey, folks have kind of abandoned network discovery. They've kind of assumed that you can, everything on the network is managed, and everything unmanaged doesn't exist.”
“So, you know, going forward, that became, uh, more and more of Run Zero's scope became OT because that stuff was mostly unmanaged.”
“It's PLCs, it's random industrial routers, things like that, things that don't run your CrowdStrike agents that don't have any other kinds of visibility into it.”