PILLAR THREE
Operational Capability
We build internal knowledge, not dependency. The Academy trains operators to CISOs in three languages. The Co-Innovation Lab solves the problems your vendors will not name.
Own the expertise. Stop renting it forever.
The skills gap never closes by hiring one more consultant. We build your people from operator to CISO in the languages they work in, and co-fund research on the problems no vendor will touch, so capability compounds inside your walls instead of walking out of them.
Role-based curricula, operator to CISO, in English, Arabic and Urdu.
Tiered curricula mapped to IEC 62443 competency profiles, assessed in the field rather than only by exam, and built by people who run engagements.
You cannot hire OT security people who do not exist in the market, and the generic IT course teaches your engineers to patch and reboot, instincts that are dangerous on a running process. Fourteen hours of the right training is the difference between an operator catching an injected setpoint in eleven seconds or missing it for half an hour.
Your own operators, engineers and leaders able to run OT security work, not merely describe it, with competence proven on the floor.
In OTMATIX competency and progression are tracked, so capability becomes measurable, not anecdotal.
Co-funded research on the unsolved problems your vendors will not touch.
Co-funded research on a clearly defined, unsolved problem, with IP terms agreed before any work begins. We choose problems by impact, not by ease.
Patch validation for a legacy DCS is the most expensive unsolved problem you have, and your vendor will not solve it because doing so means inheriting the liability. You cannot fund the research alone, and no product exists to buy.
A deployable answer to a problem no vendor will touch, and a share of the result you part own.
In OTMATIX resulting methods are operationalized through the platform, not left as an academic paper.
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’ OT Security Academy assesses competency through field based practical assessments rather than written exams alone, because a written exam measures whether a person can describe OT security concepts, while a field assessment measures whether they can actually apply that knowledge under real operational conditions. Curricula are mapped to IEC 62443 competency profiles and assessed by senior engineers on site.
OT Associates selects Co Innovation Lab research problems based on impact rather than ease of solution. A problem qualifies if it is genuinely unsolved in the OT security market, if technology vendors will not address it because doing so would create liability for them, and if a deployable solution would materially reduce risk for operators. Intellectual property terms are agreed with co funding clients before research begins.
Yes. The OT Security Academy’s curricula are tiered and modular, covering Operator, Engineer, Team Lead and CISO levels, and are scheduled in blocks that fit around operational commitments, rather than requiring engineers to be removed from the floor for extended continuous periods.
