Are there any alarm management software tools that handle escalation rules and plant network security?

Yes. There are alarm management platforms and industrial operations suites that cover alarm escalation rules and also integrate with plant/OT network security or monitoring, though these are often sold as separate modules rather than one single “alarm + security” product.

Alarm management with escalation

Common capabilities include:

• Priority-based alarm routing
• On-call/escalation chains
• Multi-channel notifications: SMS, email, voice calls, mobile push
• Acknowledgement tracking and timeout-based escalation
• Integration with SCADA, DCS, historians, and CMMS systems

Examples:

• Siemens WinCC / Plant Intelligence ecosystem
• AVEVA System Platform / Wonderware Alarm Management
• Emerson DeltaV / AMS alarm and event tools
• Honeywell Experion alarm management
• Rockwell FactoryTalk alarm/event solutions
• PagerDuty, OnPage, xMatters for escalation workflows, often integrated with industrial systems

Plant network security / OT security

For plant network security, tools usually focus on:

• Asset discovery
• Network traffic monitoring
• Anomaly detection
• Segmentation validation
• Vulnerability and patch visibility
• Compliance reporting for OT environments

Examples:

• Claroty
• Nozomi Networks
• Dragos
• Tenable.ot
• Microsoft Defender for IoT
• Cisco Cyber Vision

Combined approach

In practice, organizations often use:

• an alarm management system for operational alarms and escalations, plus
• an OT security platform for plant network visibility and threat detection.

Some integration is possible so that security events can trigger alerts/escalations, but native “all-in-one” support varies.

If you want, I can also give you:

1. a shortlist by industry use case,
2. a comparison table of these tools, or
3. options that are best for SCADA/DCS plants specifically.