OT Network Concept

A secure and reliable OT network concept that can be seamlessly integrated into corporate IT.

Fast Facts

> 40’000

Number of known vulnerabilities in 2025

1'076

Industrial locations affected in 2024, increase of almost 1,000 percent since 2020

Old OT devices as a weak point

Partly 20-30 years, without security updates, harbor a great risk

100 % OT visibility with only 5 % of the organizations

The transparency of OT activities in most organizations is
does not exist today.

> 50 %

Responsibility for OT security is increasingly being transferred to the CISO (Chief Information Security Officer).

More than 50 % of companies have no clear responsibility for OT networks - CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) is increasingly involved in
taken responsibility.

Rising budgets

Cybersecurity budgets in general are increasing, with spending on OT security expected to grow strongly.

Development of the reported vulnerabilities

Dashboard view of an OT environment

challenges

Increase cyber security, comply with IT requirements and still ensure sufficient scope for the technical systems.

Attacks on technical networks are increasing worldwide and cause immense damage when entire buildings or critical systems are shut down. Accordingly, the requirements for protecting such networks are very high and yet awareness of them on the market is very low.

The protocols used by the building technology systems present additional challenges that need to be taken into account, and the IT specifications from the corporate world need to be integrated in the best possible way.

Attack methods: Malware remains a significant threat, affecting around a third of OT environments, although this proportion has fallen slightly year-on-year (from 46 % in 2024). Brute force attacks via SSH/Telnet are a common method of penetrating IoT networks.

Growing attack surface: The integration of IT and OT systems to increase efficiency and the introduction of IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) devices increase the potential entry points for cyber threats.

SOLUTIONS

Clear hardware and topology concepts combined with the latest monitoring technology.

Active network components are installed in lockable edge boxes to ensure controlled access.

With the OT network concept developed, clear, approved topologies could be defined for the various building uses, which ensure secure operation, enable monitoring and still guarantee the necessary flexibility for the technical systems to communicate with each other.

Network transitions to cloud applications are secured and data transfer to corporate IT business intelligence applications is subject to clear rules.

Security and management software ensures that network activities are monitored in real time. New network users are checked before being granted access to the OT network.

Our engineers have decades of experience in the realization of state-of-the-art critical infrastructures.

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