OT, ICS, and IIoT systems are an essential and mission-critical part of manufacturing organizations. 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 ICS security solutions means that securing these cyber-physical systems and assets is a slow, complex, error-prone, costly, and manual process due to legacy passive discovery solutions’ resource and infrastructure dependencies.​​​

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

xIoT Risk Reduction:
The lack of safe, prevention-based xIoT security solutions at scale means that manufacturing organizations could not locate, identify, and reduce industrial control security risks. These solutions include 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 manufacturing environments is ‘environmental drift,’ which inadvertently diminishes device security. Typical causes of device drift include end-users or facilities teams who change strong passwords to weak ones, operations team members and IT administrators who modify device configurations, or insider threats who reset devices to factory settings using the “paper clip reset.”