“As an asset owner, I always felt shorthanded when running and maintaining our OT infrastructure. There was always some potential issue with the firewall, a switch dropping packets, or our SIEM sending constant alerts, only some of which were actionable. We were constantly firefighting, trying to solve issues while still being responsible for many greenfield engineering projects as well as enhancing the technology in our OT environment.”
– Eric Former, Armexa Chief Technology Officer
We see these issues with our customers at Armexa as well. Some organizations have no OT cybersecurity staff or have staff performing OT cybersecurity work as a side job, while their main job is automation engineering or IT cybersecurity. Some organizations aren’t sure where to start when evaluating and deploying new technologies into the OT environment. There are so many choices that can solve OT issues; where do you even begin?
This is why we developed the IRIS Operations Platform. At Armexa, we focus solely on OT and understand the challenges of running and maintaining OT infrastructure. We’ve been there and want to make it easy for asset owners to get meaningful protection of their OT environment quickly and without disruption. The IRIS Operations Platform is a powerful combination of best-of-breed OT technologies coupled with seasoned OT experts that tackle the most critical pain points when it comes to running and maintaining OT environments.
The IRIS Operations Platform is modular and can be expanded when your business is ready, giving you the power to adapt to your changing needs. The modules are:
- IRIS Core: Windows environments backups, endpoint security, patching, and disaster recovery for HMIs, EWSs, and application servers. IRIS Core forms the foundation of the IRIS Operations Platform and integrates with all other modules.
- Secure Remote Access: A secure cloud-based remote access solution for employees and just in time vendor access to OT environments. All common remote access protocols seen in OT are supported.
- Secure Conduit: A managed IT/OT perimeter firewall solution that ensures a compliant ruleset as well as expert support when someone inevitably says, “I think it’s the firewall causing the issue.”
- Resilient Control: Backup, change control, and disaster recovery of PLCs, VFDs, and other embedded systems. These systems are the “crown jewels” of any OT environment, it’s critical to make sure that they have a known good configuration as well as a backup in case of processor failure.
- Resilient Infrastructure: Backup, monitoring, and visualization of the OT network infrastructure. This module provides proactive monitoring to ensure the OT network environment is operating at peak performance, no matter the vendor chosen. This includes any managed switch from well-known OT network vendors such as Hirschmann, Moxa, Ru
