Secure your OT environments with a SOC model that blends IT security expertise and OT operational knowledge.
The Importance of an OT SOC
Many modern organisations that rely on OT no longer have air-gapped infrastructure. Instead, critical infrastructure is increasingly enterprise networks, cloud platforms, and third-party services. While this delivers a host of benefits, it also creates risks including:
- Safety – Physical harm to personnel, environmental hazards, and system failures with real-world consequences that extend far beyond the digital realm.
- Availability – Service disruption affecting thousands of people who depend on critical infrastructure for daily-life and essential services.
- Public Trust – Confidence in essential services and operator competence.
- Regulatory – Enforcement action, including fines, potential license implications, and increased oversight from regulatory bodies.
What Are the Challenges of an OT SOC?
Deploying an OT SOC can be challenging due to:
- Unknown Assets – Undocumented devices aren’t a rare occurrence. Alongside shadow OT deployments and legacy systems without proper inventory management, many assets remain unknown.
- Unmonitored Connections – Remote access point, IT/ OT integrations and third-party connections may bypass standard security controls and monitoring systems.
- Critical Blindspots – Control networks operating without visibility tools can create blindspots.
- Limited Context – Asset criticality, process relationships and safety implications need to be understood to assess risk and ensure effective response.
What to Expect from an OT SOC
OT environments have different priorities, constraints and risks compared to IT environments. Bridewell’s approach ensures your SOC reflects these differences, paying particular attention to:
Availability
OT environments prioritise minimal downtime and continuous operation
Legacy Systems
OT environments rely on legacy systems with a 20+ year lifecycle, often unsupported.
Patching
Patching in OT environments is a manual process, where extensive testing is required.
What Are the Benefits of an OT SOC?
With the support of Bridewell’s OT SOC, you can achieve:
Effective Detection
Our approach to an OT SOC provides you with layered detection across network, identity, endpoints and process behaviour.
Converged Monitoring
By monitoring across IT and OT, we ensure complete visibility across the entire attack-path, enabling faster detection and a more effective response.
24/7 Operations
Continuous monitoring with OT-aware escalation that respect operational constraints.
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Start Your OT SOC Journey
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How We Deliver Our OT SOC
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Effective OT security operations aren’t built overnight. To build capabilities whilst maintaining operational continuity, we take a phased approach to converged OT security.
- Foundation – We establish visibility across IT/ OT environments and build asset inventory.
- Detection – We deploy layered monitoring with OT-aware detection capabilities.
- Response – We deploy converged incident response procedures and blended teams.
- Optimisation – Continuously improve through lessons learned and threat intelligence.
Why Bridewell for an OT SOC?
Technology Expertise and Strategic Partnerships
Our partnerships with Nozomi Networks, Microsoft and Armis enhance our OT capabilities through leading platforms for OT-specific NDR, SIEM, and asset visibility.
Flexible Models
We offer both Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Co-managed SOCs, depending on which model better aligns with your needs.
Meet Your Compliance Requirements
Our approach helps you meet common requirements across CAF v4.0, NIS2, and NIST CSF/800-82.
Why Us?
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Awards
Our team have won numerous industry awards, including 'Cyber Business of the Year' at the National Cyber Awards 2024 and 'Best Cyber Security Company of the Year' at the Cyber Security Awards 2023.
Certifications
Our people and services are highly accredited by leading industry bodies including CREST, the NCSC, and more. Our SOC holds extensive accreditations from CREST (including for CSIR and SOC2) and works closely with our cyber consultancy services.
Partnerships
As a Microsoft Partner, we also hold advanced specialisms in Cloud Security and Threat Protection. We’ve also implemented some of the UK’s largest deployments of the Microsoft Security stack, inc. Sentinel, Defender, Purview and more.
