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asset visibility

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Comparison of OT monitoring platforms on an ICS network with evaluation criteria side by side

Cybersecurity

What Is the Best OT Cybersecurity Platform for ICS Networks? Selection Criteria

There is no single best OT cybersecurity platform — there is the right one for your ICS network, your protocols, and your maturity level. Concrete criteria for choosing without being guided by marketing.

4 min read

Flat industrial OT network without segmentation, with heterogeneous devices and undocumented connections

Cybersecurity

Flat OT Networks: Why Most Factories Don't Know What's on Their Network

In Italian manufacturing SMEs the OT network is often a flat network with no up-to-date inventory. Unknown devices, undocumented expansions, knowledge held only in the technician's head: any industrial security project starts with understanding what's on the network.

6 min read

OSINT search on Shodan for exposed industrial OT systems with Modbus protocols and HMI interfaces

Cybersecurity

OSINT on Industrial Plants: What Attackers Find Before You Do

Before launching an attack, threat actors look for publicly available information about their targets. Shodan, Censys and other OSINT tools can find OT systems exposed on the internet in seconds. Understanding what they see is the first step to reducing your own exposure.

6 min read

Industrial OT network assessment with passive traffic analysis and ICS device profiling

Cybersecurity

How an OT Assessment Is Conducted: Phases, Methods and What You Really Find

An OT network assessment is not a vulnerability scan run on corporate IT. Different methodology, different risks, and often surprising results: here is what to expect from a properly conducted industrial assessment.

6 min read

Reconstructing an industrial OT network topology from passive traffic monitoring with a PLC SCADA HMI dependency map

Cybersecurity

OT Network Topology: How to Reconstruct It When No Documentation Exists

OT network topology often lives only in a technician's head, or in a 2014 diagram that was never updated. Rebuilding it from scratch with passive traffic monitoring: why it is necessary and how it is done in practice.

6 min read

Automated warehouse with AS/RS systems, vertical racking and AGVs on the floor

Cybersecurity

OT cybersecurity in logistics and automated warehouses: heterogeneous systems and high turnover

Modern automated warehouses run complex OT networks: a WMS wired to the automation, heterogeneous PLCs from many vendors, AGVs and mixed protocols. High turnover and frequent vendor work break segmentation, and downtime hits the supply chain instantly.

6 min read

Industrial OT network with unauthorized devices connected to switches and PLCs in a manufacturing plant

Cybersecurity

Shadow Devices in OT Networks: The Assets Nobody Knows They Have

Maintenance laptops left connected, 4G modems installed by vendors, uncatalogued switches: shadow devices in OT networks are more common than you think and represent concrete blind spots for security.

5 min read

Monitoring platform screen mapping OT and IoT assets in an industrial plant

Cybersecurity

OT/IoT Asset Visibility: Why It Is the First Pillar of Security

You cannot protect what you cannot see: complete OT/IoT asset visibility is the foundation of every industrial cybersecurity strategy.

2 min read

Industrial network diagram with sensors mapping PLCs, HMIs and OT devices across the levels of the Purdue model

Cybersecurity

How to Achieve Complete OT/ICS Asset Visibility

A hands-on guide to building a complete OT/ICS asset inventory: sensors, passive and active discovery, DPI and behavioral baselines without stopping production.

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