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Your operations are being targeted by ever-more sophisticated cyberattacks, including AI-driven reconnaissance and credential theft that exploit unpatched systems, weak authentication, and flat network architectures. Traditional perimeter security and firewalls simply aren’t enough to protect critical Operational Technology (OT) – especially legacy control systems that cannot be patched or segmented.
“Patch and pray” is no longer a viable OT cybersecurity strategy. With increasingly sophisticated, AI-enabled threats including agentic cyber threats that can move faster than traditional security processes, there simply isn’t time to rely on reactive updates alone. Organizations need to quickly understand their OT environment and establish a hard shell around critical assets to reduce exposure while creating time to address deeper vulnerabilities.
Avid brings decades of OT experience to the plant floor, identifying and cataloging the PLCs, DCS systems, SCADA, switches, HMIs, IIoT devices, instruments, and electrical systems that keep your operation running. We turn that visibility into a coordinated, prioritized plan to reduce risk, address OT cybersecurity technical debt, and give you a practical roadmap for how to plan, budget, and execute the improvements your facility needs.
Before You Secure Your OT, Know What’s Actually There.
- OT Asset Management (OTAM) - A structured approach to identify, catalog, and assess your critical OT assets. We capture key asset details such as manufacturer, model, firmware, lifecycle status, replacement availability, and obsolescence risks to provide a complete view of your OT environment.
- Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) - A structured approach to assess and catalog software components of your OT environment. We document firmware versions, software releases, upgrade paths, replacement options, and obsolescence risks to provide a complete understanding of your installed technology base.
- OT Network Protection & Segmentation - We reduce asset exposure through network cloaking, secure remote access controls, and microsegmentation strategies. With risks identified, you can strategically plan and budget for remediation initiatives.
With OT Risks Understood, Protect Your Assets
Once your OT environment has been identified and assessed through the 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, NERC CIP, NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-82, NRC 10 CFR 73.54, and emerging practices such as SBOM and OT Asset Management.
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Why work with Avid?
- Multi Industry experience and industry thought leadership can help you gain a competitive advantage.
- We prioritize your operational needs and recognize the specific challenges of running and maintaining a production facility.
- Our teams understand regulatory guidelines, and effectively collaborate with cross functional teams to minimize risk.
- We are built on agility. We’re a low-impedance partner and are easy to do business with.
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If you are ready to INNOVATE, OPTIMIZE, and TRANSFORM your operations, Avid is eager to help! Contact Avid for an initial discussion. For additional insights or to learn more on how we solve client issues, check out our services.
Know your industry standards and frameworks designed to protect your operations.
- ISA/IEC 62443
- Primary Industry: Industrial / OT
- Cybersecurity Significance: Very High
- Summary Description: OT/ICS cybersecurity standard covering secure architecture, zones & conduits, access control, system hardening, security levels, secure development and lifecycle management.
- NERC CIP
- Primary Industry: Electric power / bulk electric system
- Cybersecurity Significance: Very High – Regulatory
- Summary Description: Mandatory cybersecurity requirements for applicable Bulk Electric System assets. Covers asset identification, electronic/physical access, system security, incident response, recovery, configuration/change management and supply-chain risk.
- NIST CSF
- Primary Industry: Cross-industry
- Cybersecurity Significance: High – Framework
- Summary Description: Enterprise framework for managing cyber risk around Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover. Useful for assessing maturity and developing a cybersecurity roadmap.
- NIST SP 800-82
- Primary Industry: Industrial / OT
- Cybersecurity Significance: Very High
- Summary Description: NIST’s OT security guidance specifically addressing DCS, PLC, SCADA and other control systems while recognizing OT safety, reliability and availability requirements.
- NRC 10 CFR 73.54
- Primary Industry: Commercial Nuclear Power
- Cybersecurity Significance: Very High – Federal Regulation
- Summary Description: Requires applicable nuclear facilities to protect digital computer and communication systems/networks associated with safety, security, emergency preparedness and support systems against cyberattack.
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