OT, ICS, and SCADA systems are an essential and mission-critical part of utilities, energy, and oil & gas companies. But because they were historically air-gapped, they have fewer built-in protections and are more vulnerable to attacks and ransomware. And, the lack of scalable, cost-effective, and prevention-based xIoT security solutions means that securing these sensitive and mission-critical cyber-physical systems and assets is slow, complex, error-prone, costly, and manual – due to the resource and infrastructure dependencies of legacy scanners and passive discovery solutions.​ 

xIoT Visibility:
Legacy active solutions fail with OT/ICS and SCADA assets primarily because of their intrusive, brute-force device scanning approaches that result in disrupted or dramatically degraded operations. Legacy passive discovery solutions are dependent on network monitoring to perform discovery, resulting in limited visibility, inaccurate inventory, long mean-time-to-inventory, infrastructure dependencies, and high network performance impact.

xIoT Risk Reduction: 
The lack of safe, prevention-based xIoT security solutions for energy, utilities, and oil & gas environments means that organizations have had no ability to find, identify, and prevent OT, ICS, and SCADA system security risks, let alone meet the key cybersecurity recommendations set forth by the Department of Energy. This includes best practices for security, such as continuous monitoring & alerting, changing default cyber-physical system passwords, or fixing risky configurations on embedded devices.

xIoT Monitoring & Automated Alerts:
One of the biggest challenges for long-term xIoT security in critical infrastructure and OT environments is ‘environmental drift,’ which inadvertently diminishes device security.