You Can’t Secure What You Can’t See.

Once your OT environment has been identified and assessed through OTAM and SBOM step, the next step is reducing exposure and protecting critical assets. Avid helps manufacturers and critical infrastructure operators establish a foundational layer of OT cybersecurity using Zero Trust principles, network cloaking, Secure Remote Access (SRA), and Microsegmentation to reduce the attack surface and prevent unauthorized access before an attack can begin.

By making critical OT assets invisible to unauthorized users, enforcing least-privilege access, and implementing passwordless multi-factor authentication, organizations can eliminate many common attack pathways associated with stolen credentials and phishing. Software-defined segmentation and microsegmentation create secure zones that limit communication between systems, contain potential threats, and reduce the risk of lateral movement across the OT environment.

SRA provides controlled, authenticated access for employees, vendors, and service providers while protecting critical systems from external threats. This proactive approach creates an immediate reduction in cyber risk while allowing organizations the time needed to address prioritized hardware, software, and lifecycle vulnerabilities identified during the assessment process.

Avid combines decades of OT automation experience with cybersecurity best practices to help clients protect operations, improve resilience, and develop a practical roadmap for modernization. Avid has executed thousands of projects across multiple industries over the past 30 years and understands the evolving cybersecurity standards and requirements impacting critical manufacturing and infrastructure organizations, including ISA/IEC 62443, NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-82, NERC CIP, NRC 10 CFR 73.54, NQA-1, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, GAMP 5, and emerging practices such as SBOM and OT Asset Management.