PILLAR ONE
Operational Assurance
You are certified, monitored, and still partly blind to what sits on your own floor. Knowing Where You Actually Stand
Know What is Exposed, Not What a Scanner Assumes.
You are certified, monitored, and still partly blind to what sits on your own floor. We walk the plant, rebuild it, attack it safely and map the threats to your region and sector, so your risk picture reflects the process and the consequence, not an IP address.
A ten-day, on-floor diagnostic by senior practitioners, alongside your own engineers.
A senior team walks the plant with your operators and engineers. Not a desktop assessment, not a scan, not a checklist.
You hold two ISO certificates and a Tier-1 MSSP contract, yet no senior security professional has walked the floor. The safety relay misconfiguration, the undocumented serial link, the engineering workstation quietly dual-homed onto the business network: none of these appear in a vulnerability report. They surface in a conversation with the field operator.
An honest, asset-level picture of what is genuinely exposed, tied to the process rather than the IP address, in days rather than months.
In OTMATIX findings land as a live risk model, not a PDF that ages on a shelf.
Process, technology and human factors analysed as a single threat surface.
A signature methodology that identifies the scenarios that could disrupt your process or endanger people and ranks them by consequence.
Your highest-impact risk often carries no CVE. It is a procedural drift during turnaround that lets a vendor laptop onto the safety network for forty minutes, or a bypassed interlock no scanner will ever flag. CVE lists rank theoretical vulnerabilities; they do not tell you what could trip the plant or hurt someone.
Board-ready decisions on the handful of scenarios that genuinely matter, and a clear view of what it would take to break each one.
In OTMATIX validated scenarios convert directly into controls, linking risk to action.
Your environment, rebuilt in our lab and attacked safely.
A controlled exercise where we replicate your environment and run the attacks you fear, executed by offensive practitioners.
You do not know whether your defenses, or your control-room operators, would hold. An operator who once missed an injected setpoint change for thirty-eight minutes becomes a different operator once they have seen it happen in a safe rebuild. You cannot rehearse that on the live plant.
Hard evidence of how your technology and your people respond, plus the artefacts to defend, train and support your insurance position.
In OTMATIX lab findings are expressed as governance controls and tracked as a maturity measure, year on year.
The threat picture for your geography, sector and operating reality.
A diagnostic mapping current threat-actor activity, geopolitical pressure and sector tradecraft against your specific environment, refreshed quarterly.
Three Gulf operators change a vendor remote-access policy in sixty days, responding to a regional pattern no global feed described. A threat brief written for another continent, then re-priced for your invoice, will not see what is moving toward your sector.
A current, defensible threat picture you can take into a board meeting, written where the threats happen.
In OTMATIX the threat picture links to your controls, so intelligence drives the program rather than sitting in an inbox.
One Platform.
Running Continuously.
Every Control, Every Framework, Every Advisor Note.
Most OT governance programmes stall because they depend on a single person’s availability, a spreadsheet that nobody maintains and a PDF report that ages the moment it is printed. OTMATIX runs continuously. The programme does not stop when your team is stretched.
Frequently Asked Questions
A structured, step-by-step approach to identify risks, stop threats, and keep your business protected on all fronts.
OT Associates’ Plant Walk is a ten day, on floor diagnostic led by senior OT practitioners, conducted alongside the client’s own engineers, unlike a standard cybersecurity assessment, which runs a network scan and produces a report ranking theoretical vulnerabilities. A standard assessment cannot see an undocumented serial link, a dual homed engineering workstation or a misconfigured safety relay. The Plant Walk finds these because senior practitioners are physically on site asking the field operators who actually know where the risk lives.
A scenario without a CVE is an operational risk, such as a procedural drift during turnaround, a bypassed safety interlock, or a shift handover gap, that creates genuine consequence but has no entry in a vulnerability database because it is not a software flaw. OT Associates’ Process Based Scenario Engagement is the methodology built specifically to identify these risks, since standard vulnerability scanning tools are not designed to detect process level or human factor risks.
Yes. OT Associates’ Adversary Lab Engagement rebuilds the client’s environment in a controlled, replicated lab environment and never tests directly on the live production system. Offensive security practitioners run real attack scenarios against the lab rebuild, allowing control room operators to be tested and trained without introducing any operational risk to the live plant.
