Industries
Energy & Utilities
OT/ICS security, grid and asset analytics, SCADA integration and resilient infrastructure for power, oil and gas, and water utilities.
Who we serve
Downtime here is a safety event, not an inconvenience.
Energy and utility operators answer to a different standard than most industries. Cystem X builds security and analytics for operational technology environments with that reality as the starting assumption, not an afterthought bolted onto an IT project.
SCADA systems, programmable logic controllers and field devices were built for availability and determinism, not for the threat landscape they now face. Our Cybersecurity practice runs OT/ICS security programs purpose-built for these environments: passive network monitoring, segmentation between IT and OT, and incident response playbooks that account for physical process safety, not just data confidentiality.
Grid operators, generation companies and water utilities are also sitting on more asset and sensor data than they can act on manually. Our AI & Generative AI and Data & Databases practices build predictive maintenance and asset-health models and the streaming pipelines that feed them, surfacing the failures worth acting on before they become outages.
Where SCADA and asset-management systems need to exchange data with enterprise IT, our Software Engineering and Cloud & Infrastructure practices build the integration layer, with the resilient, redundant infrastructure design that a utility's continuity requirements demand.
For operators that cannot put OT data anywhere near the public internet, our AI Infrastructure & LLMOps and Cloud & Infrastructure practices deliver private cloud, on-premises or fully air-gapped deployments, so analytics and automation run close to the asset without expanding the attack surface.
What we deliver
Six delivery areas spanning the control system, the asset and the enterprise it feeds.
OT/ICS security programs
Purpose-built programs covering SCADA, PLC and field-device environments, through Cybersecurity.
IT / OT segmentation
Passive monitoring and network segmentation suited to operational technology, via Cybersecurity.
Predictive asset analytics
Predictive maintenance and asset-health models, through AI & Generative AI and Data & Databases.
SCADA / IT integration
SCADA and asset-management integration with enterprise IT systems, via Software Engineering.
Resilient infrastructure
Redundant infrastructure design built for continuous operations, via Cloud & Infrastructure.
Air-gapped analytics
Private-cloud, on-premises or air-gapped deployment close to the asset, via AI Infrastructure & LLMOps.
Frameworks we align OT security with
Adapted for operational technology, described as alignment rather than certification.
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