Key Capabilities / Features

OT Asset Management
- Building upon basic asset visibility, inventory and manage all your OT hardware and software details at a more comprehensive level. Address cyber risks more precisely with deeper details such as software versions, vulnerabilities, patches, firewall rules, and PLC key switch positions, all managed within a unified security & compliance platform.

Change and Configuration Management
- Ensure the secure configuration of systems and evaluate any changes for potential security risks and compliance issues. Automatically collect, normalize, and report on changes in your OT systems, regardless of vendor or location. Easily create asset baseline configurations that our change detection engine compares with actual configuration data, including ports and services, users, software, and patches and firewall rules.

Vulnerability management
- Along with a detailed OT asset inventory, Industrial Defender’s OT data enables risk-based vulnerability management. Gain insight into relevant CVEs, patches available, and mitigation actions. Benefit from our partnership with FoxGuard solutions for validating and deploying vendor-approved patches.

Compliance & Governance
- Simplify your compliance journey with automated data collection and reporting. Generate audit-ready reports for dozens of industry frameworks including NIST, NERC CIP, CMMC, NIS2, and Australia’s CIRMP Rules/AESCS and eliminate manual spreadsheets and human error.

How we are different

- Integrated Active and Passive Approaches: Industrial Defender champions the integration of both active and passive data collection methods. As OT security matures, both end-user organizations and industry frameworks recognize the need for both passive and active approaches. Industrial Defender has long championed, and proven, an operationally-safe and effective integrated data collection approach to achieve a deep understanding of the OT environment. Industrial Defender’s open API also enables easy integration of with your existing technology stack.

- Historical Context for Change Detection: The Industrial Defender platform is engineered to give historical context, enabling change detection and the continuous management of OT assets. Unlike competitors that provide limited snapshots, Industrial Defender provides the ability to baseline what a secure and stable system should look like and quickly identify any deviations. By proactively monitoring system changes, it ensures system integrity and reduces risks associated with configuration drift.

- Automated Compliance with Depth and Flexibility: Industrial Defender's extensive data collection, paired with its historical context, streamlines compliance reporting. It offers ready-made reports for key frameworks like NIST, NERC CIP, CMMC, NIS2, and Australia’s CIRMP Rules/AESCSF, and more. Custom reports can also be tailored to any combination of frameworks as well as internal company policies. Industrial Defender’s comprehensive and routine data collection ensures that the right information is readily available, accessible, and reportable – for easily proving compliance during various audits and assessments.