OT-specific security programs, built from the ground up — a specialist discipline distinct from general IT security.
A corporate laptop that goes down for a patch is an inconvenience. A control system that goes down mid-shift can mean a safety incident, a line stoppage costing real money by the minute, or damaged equipment that takes weeks to replace. OT environments have different uptime requirements, different patching cadences, and often run on hardware and software that's been in service for decades. This practice is built for that reality.
Physical and logical separation between plant-floor (OT) and office (IT) networks, built on industrial-grade switching — the foundational control everything else builds on.
Systematic risk assessment, prioritization, and remediation across the full asset inventory — not a one-time scan.
Frameworks that let vendors and support staff do their jobs without exposing the industrial network perimeter.
A purpose-built playbook and recurring, facilitated cyber tabletop exercises with the leadership team — the difference between a days-long recovery and a multi-hour one.
Directing virtual patching and intrusion-prevention rollouts built to move across dozens of sites in days, not quarters — coordinating vendor and internal teams so the work happens in parallel, not one site at a time.
OT-specific general controls, developed directly with Internal Audit, to standardize access and change management for compliance.
A portable, plug-in diagnostic process that passively scans a plant's network with zero production risk, producing a prioritized findings report that becomes the on-ramp into follow-on remediation work — without ever touching a live production system during the assessment itself.
Many plant-floor HMIs and control systems are old enough that they can no longer be patched conventionally. Modernizing them using thin-client architecture gets equipment supportable again without a full control-system replacement.
Purpose-built backup and recovery design for the shop floor — spanning both server-level disaster recovery and PLC-level controls backup, so program logic and configuration can be restored just as fast as the server stack.
You can't secure or plan around equipment you don't have a real inventory of. A full OT asset inventory and lifecycle-management practice — tracking firmware versions, end-of-life status, and spare-parts availability — is the foundation both security and capital planning run on.
For the standards and frameworks behind this program — NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-82, and IEC 62443 — see the full reference page.
Cybersecurity & Standards Reference →A short assessment conversation is often enough to tell you whether you're in good shape or exposed somewhere you didn't expect.
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