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AI is coming to the plant floor. Secure it first.

Gaper secures the control systems that run your plants: PLCs, SCADA, safety systems, and the new data paths to cloud and AI. We start from the physical process, work inside your maintenance windows, and put named senior engineers on your alerts.

30 min OT risk call0 rip-and-replace24/7 named engineers
Process first
Risk mapped to what stops the plant
Safety first
No active scans on live controllers
Your tools
Dragos · Claroty · Nozomi · Defender
Named engineers
Not an L1 ticket queue
ot threats in 2025

Ransomware has learned where the plant is.

Industrial attacks no longer stop at the office network. They reach the systems that move product, power and water, and most sites can't see them when they arrive.

01 · Ransomware dwell time in OT
42 days

on average before ransomware in OT is found and contained. Sites with full OT visibility did it in 5 days.

Industry average (days)42
Full OT visibility (days)5
Source: Dragos 2026 OT/ICS Year in Review
02 · Industrial victims, 2025
3,300

industrial organizations hit by 119 ransomware groups in one year. More than two-thirds were manufacturers.

Manufacturing 67%Other sectors 33%
Source: Dragos 2026 OT/ICS Year in Review
03 · No fix from the vendor
26%

of ICS vulnerability advisories in 2025 came with no patch or mitigation. The compensating controls have to come from you.

No patch or mitigationPatch or mitigation
Source: Dragos 2026 OT/ICS Year in Review
why ot is different

IT security playbooks break things on the plant floor.

THE IT SECURITY PLAYBOOK
  • Active scans that can crash a PLC
  • Patch Tuesday, reboot Wednesday
  • Risk ranked by CVSS score and IP address
  • Alerts triaged by a queue that has never seen a DCS
GAPER OT SECURITY
  • Passive discovery first, active checks only with sign-off
  • Changes planned around your maintenance windows
  • Risk ranked by what could stop, spill or trip the process
  • Named senior OT engineers on your alerts
ot security services

Five services. One partner from first assessment to 24/7 watch.

Start with an assessment, or start where it hurts. Every service feeds the same live risk model, so nothing you learn ends up in a PDF on a shelf.

01
Assurance

OT Security Assessment

We walk the plant with your engineers and build a risk model tied to your process. You see which scenarios could stop production, and which fixes matter first.

  • Plant walk and asset discoveryPassive
  • Process-based scenario assessmentRisk model
  • Adversary testing in a lab copy of your environmentNever on live
  • Regional threat diagnosticYour sector
02
Governance

OT Governance & Compliance

Controls, evidence and certifications kept current all year, so an audit stops being a fire drill. A named advisor owns the program with you.

  • Live risk register with controls and evidenceAlways on
  • Named resident advisorAccountable
  • Certification sprintsIEC 62443 · NERC CIP · OTCC
  • Vendor and third-party access riskSupply chain
03
Continuity

Managed OT Security

Choose how much you hand over, from co-managed governance to a fully embedded OT security function. Alerts go to senior engineers who know your site.

  • Managed governanceCo-managed
  • 24/7 OT monitoring by named engineersOT Vigilance
  • Embedded OT security teamFully managed
04
Intelligence

OT Threat Intelligence

Threat, peer and regulatory intelligence for your region and sector, fed straight into your risk model instead of an inbox.

  • Regional threat briefingsUS · Middle East · Pakistan
  • Sector benchmarkingPeer view
  • Regulatory watchRule changes
  • Attack scenario libraryProcess-mapped
05
Capability

OT Security Training

Build your own team's muscle with role-based training, from control room operators to the CISO, and research on the OT problems nobody has solved yet.

  • OT security academyOperator to CISO
  • Co-innovation labJoint R&D
secure ai in ot

Connecting AI to your plant? We secure the path first.

Gaper builds production AI agents, so we know where they go wrong on industrial sites: a cloud link punched through the DMZ, an agent with write access to setpoints, a model nobody is watching. We design the connection so AI reads what it needs and changes nothing it shouldn't.

01 · Review

AI-to-OT architecture review

Every data path from historian to cloud model and back, mapped against IEC 62443 zones and conduits.

02 · Contain

Read-only by default

Data leaves through the DMZ via brokers or one-way gateways. Nothing writes to control levels without engineering sign-off.

03 · Govern

Guardrails for agents

Allow-lists for the tags an agent may read, human approval for any change it recommends, and a trace of every action.

04 · Watch

Monitor the new traffic

AI and cloud flows join your OT monitoring, so an odd query from an agent raises the same alert as an attacker would.

Works with the monitoring tools and control systems already on your sites:
DragosClarotyNozomi NetworksTenable OT SecurityMicrosoft Defender for IoTSiemensRockwell AutomationSchneider ElectricHoneywellABBEmersonModbus · DNP3 · OPC UA · IEC 61850
industries

Built for operators who can't stop the line to patch.

Legacy controllers, mixed vendors and short maintenance windows. We plan every change around production and safety.

Oil & gas

Upstream, pipelines and refining

DCS and SIS environments, remote RTUs, and pipeline rules such as the TSA security directives.

Power & utilities

Generation, grid and water

Substations, SCADA and water treatment, mapped to NERC CIP and NEPRA requirements.

Manufacturing

Discrete and process plants

Flat networks, aging PLCs and vendor remote access, secured without stopping the line.

Transport & infrastructure

Ports, rail and airports

Operational systems that cross many owners, with segmentation and access control between them.

Government & CNI

Critical national infrastructure

National-level programs aligned to regional regulators across the US, the Gulf and Pakistan.

OEMs & integrators

Vendors building into OT

An operator's view of your product and services, plus IEC 62443-4-1 and 4-2 readiness.

compliance by region

One program, mapped to the rules you answer to.

We build on IEC 62443 once, then map the same controls and evidence to each regulator. One set of work, many audits.

United States

North America

  • NERC CIPBulk electric system
  • TSA security directivesPipelines and rail
  • NIST SP 800-82OT security guide
  • CISA performance goalsCross-sector baseline
Middle East

Gulf region

  • NCA OTCCSaudi Arabia · OT controls
  • NCA ECCSaudi Arabia · essential controls
  • UAE IA standardsUnited Arab Emirates
  • Qatar NIANational information assurance
Pakistan

South Asia

  • NEPRA IT & OT security regulationsPower sector, 2022
  • PowerCERT reportingIncident notification
  • National Cyber Security Policy2021
Everywhere

The common base

  • IEC 62443Industrial security standard
  • ISO/IEC 27001 and 27019ISMS for energy utilities
  • NIS2For operators supplying the EU
how we work

From a free risk call to a plant you can see and defend.

Start with one site. Prove the approach on your own process, then roll it out across the fleet with the same named lead.

01 · 30 MIN
Free OT risk call

Tell us about one site. We find your biggest exposure and the rules that apply before anyone travels.

Risk snapshot
02 · ON SITE
Plant walk

Senior engineers walk the process with your team. Passive discovery only. Nothing touches live controllers without sign-off.

Asset and process map
03 · MODEL
Scenario risk model

Threats tied to the process: which scenario trips what, and what it costs. Ranked fixes instead of a 200-page report.

Ranked roadmap
04 · FIX
Remediate and certify

Segmentation, remote access, backups and controls, scheduled into maintenance windows. Certification sprints if you need the badge.

Audit-ready evidence
05 · RUN
Monitor and improve

Named engineers on 24/7 watch, or a full handover to your team with training. Your choice.

Named engineer on call
free ot risk assessment

Book a free OT risk assessment.

30 minutes with a senior OT security engineer. Bring one site and your biggest worry. You leave with a risk snapshot and your next three steps, whether or not you work with us.

No scanning, no site visitUS · Middle East · PakistanOperators, EPCs, OEMs
faq

Questions plant and security teams ask about OT security

What is OT security?

Operational technology (OT) security protects the systems that control physical processes: PLCs, DCS, SCADA, HMIs, safety instrumented systems and the networks between them. Its priorities differ from IT security. Safety and uptime come first, then integrity, then confidentiality.

How is OT security different from IT security?

Control systems run for decades, can't be rebooted on demand and can fail if scanned the wrong way. OT security relies on passive monitoring, segmentation and compensating controls, and every change is planned around production and safety.

Will an assessment disrupt production?

No. We start with passive discovery and a physical plant walk. Any active testing happens in a lab copy of your environment, or with written sign-off during a maintenance window.

Do we have to replace our current OT monitoring tools?

No. We work with Dragos, Claroty, Nozomi Networks, Tenable OT and Microsoft Defender for IoT. If you don't have a tool yet, we help you choose one that fits your sites.

Which OT security standards and regulations do you cover?

IEC 62443 is the base. On top of it we map NERC CIP and TSA directives in the US, NCA OTCC and ECC in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar national standards across the Gulf, and NEPRA's IT and OT security regulations for Pakistan's power sector.

Is it safe to connect AI and cloud analytics to our OT network?

It can be, if the path is designed for it. We keep data flowing out through the DMZ, block write-back to control levels by default, limit what an agent can read, and add the new traffic to OT monitoring.

Who does the work?

Senior OT security engineers who have worked inside live industrial operations. Every client gets a named lead who stays with the program after the assessment.

PROCESS-FIRST OT SECURITY, WITH A NAMED ENGINEER

Modernize the plant without opening the door.

Book a free 30-minute OT risk call. We'll find your biggest exposure and the smallest fix worth making first.

Assess, fix, monitorZero-downtime methodsUS · Middle East · Pakistan

Stats: Dragos 2026 OT/ICS Cybersecurity Year in Review (covering 2025). Alerts in the plant view are sample output.