Manufacturing and industrial IT
The plant floor and the office network want opposite things, and nearly all IT advice is written for the office. A patch window on a production line isn't a patch window on a laptop fleet. The failure we find most often is a flat network between the two, and fixing it rarely means buying new machines.
Which rules apply to you?
OT and IT convergence
Applies now
A flat network between plant and office is the common failure, and segmentation is the fix. It's a design problem, not a purchase.
Patch windows
Applies now
A scheduling problem before it's a security one. Production decides when, and any plan that ignores that gets ignored back.
Legacy equipment
Applies now
Machines running operating systems nobody supports and nobody's replacing this year. Isolating them properly beats pretending they'll be gone by Q3.
ISO 22301
Applies conditionally
Business continuity certification, once your larger customers start asking for it in their vendor paperwork.
Which services answer them?
- Network SecuritySegmentation between plant floor and corporate, so one doesn't reach the other.
- Enterprise NetworkingA network designed for machines that don't reboot on demand.
- IT Support ServicesShifts don't stop at five and neither does the line.
- Backup and Disaster RecoveryA production line stopped is revenue per minute, not per day.
- ISO 22301 Business ContinuityThe continuity certification your larger customers ask for.
- Endpoint ManagementIncluding the machines you can't patch, isolated properly instead.
- Co-Managed ITYour plant engineer knows the floor. We cover the rest.
- Vulnerability ManagementWhich of the machines you can't patch actually matter, ranked.
- Cisco ISENetwork access control for devices that can't run an agent.
Whose kit does this run on?
The platforms we design, build and support. Named because a buyer with an estate already standardised on one of them needs to know before the first call, not after it.
Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Juniper, VMware