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OT network traffic baseline chart with anomalous deviations highlighted and a maintenance-window calendar

Cybersecurity

Anomaly detection in OT: building the baseline and managing false positives

OT networks are repetitive and predictable, in theory the ideal environment for anomaly detection. In practice, legitimate-but-anomalous behavior generates a false-positive noise that is the main cause of failure for industrial monitoring projects.

5 min read

Cybersecurity

OT Metrics for the Board: Turning Industrial Security into Decision-Ready Numbers

Management wants numbers. But which OT metrics communicate real risk instead of mere compliance? How to build a dashboard of KPIs and KRIs that speaks of potential downtime, not checklists.

6 min read

Cybersecurity

OT Monitoring for MSSP Providers: What It Really Takes to Manage Multiple Industrial Clients

An MSSP offering OT monitoring needs more than a single-plant product: real multi-tenancy, clean SOC integration and alert handling at scale are what matter.

4 min read

Cybersecurity

Integrating OT Monitoring with Existing SIEM and SOC: Data, Formats and Added Value

Many companies already run a SIEM or a managed SOC, but these systems are blind to OT. How to feed OT monitoring events into the SOC, which formats to use and which alerts to escalate.

6 min read

SOC with OT network monitoring sensors and industrial analysis dashboard

Cybersecurity

Building a SOC for OT Environments: Requirements, Tools, and Operational Metrics

An IT SOC cannot see OT environments. Building monitoring capabilities for industrial networks requires different sensors, different skills, and playbooks specific to OT protocols and threats.

4 min read

Cybersecurity

OT threat hunting: chasing threats when the SOC and alerts are not enough

Reactive monitoring waits for an alert to fire. Threat hunting goes looking for the attacker the alerts never saw. How to apply threat hunting to OT environments, and why finding nothing is a good result.

3 min read

Industrial SOC analyst working alongside an AI assistant that filters alerts and anomalies on OT systems

Cybersecurity

Skills Gap in OT Cybersecurity: Leaving to AI What It Does Best

Flat budgets and too few, half-expert analysts: how artificial intelligence can close the skills gap in OT security without replacing people.

2 min read