Overview
We enhance your security posture through a unified security architecture program that brings IT, OT, and ET together under one framework. This top-down model ensures consistent, audit-ready processes and reusable artifacts that support digital transformation and long-term resilience.
Approach
Current-to-Target State Assessment
Engage executive, business, technical, and third-party stakeholders to understand perspectives, priorities, and pain points.
Review existing enterprise architecture practices, policies, standards, and guidelines governing IT/OT/ET security, including all relevant legal, regulatory, and industry requirements.
Evaluate the organization’s current architecture landscape with focus on network integration points, identity and access flows, and protection of mission-critical assets.
Provide targeted recommendations for maturing enterprise security architecture and improving processes through the Enterprise Architecture Review Board (EARB).
Integrated Incident Response Alignment
Identify and map integration points between IT and OT incident response processes.
Align and streamline IR plans to enable rapid, coordinated, and safety-focused response actions across operational domains.
Emerging Technology (ET) Readiness
Assess current and planned use of emerging technologies for security considerations, operational impact, and readiness to adopt AI, quantum computing/encryption capabilities, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and next-generation connectivity.
Outcomes
Security Architecture Practice
A gap analysis document outlining the current and target state of enterprise security architecture.
A strategic action plan for strengthening EA security practices across IT, OT, ET, and third-party supplier ecosystems.
Practical guidance for securing emerging technologies such as AI, quantum-influenced systems, and advanced connectivity.
Recommendations for embedding enterprise security architecture into tactical IT/OT functions where a formal practice does not yet exist.
Security Architecture Documentation
Creation or enhancement of security architecture templates (e.g., Solution Architecture, Security Architecture Design documents).
Updates or alignment of policies, standards, guidelines, and supporting artifacts.
- Updates or development of security reference architecture, diagrams, security patterns. E.g. https://www.opensecurityarchitecture.org/library/patternlandscape
Integrated Incident Response Preparedness
Development or refinement of integrated IR plans that address IT/OT/ET interactions and third-party involvement.
- A one-page, simplified IR process flow indicating trigger points for key activities/contacts in an IT/OT security incident scenario.
Recommendations for tabletop exercises, red-team engagements, and annual testing schedules, including resource and supplier participation requirements.