OTNexus • Use Cases

Use Cases That Resonate
with Real OT Risk

Because checklists, spreadsheets, and manual fixes
don’t stand a chance against modern industrial threats.

Uncover Hidden OT Assets

The Reality:  A technician plugs in a forgotten device during routine maintenance. It goes unnoticed for weeks. It’s running outdated firmware. You only find out after something breaks.

The Risk:  Unmanaged assets become entry points for threat actors or cause operational failure.
What Changes with OTNexus:  You gain centralized visibility across your OT landscape. Every asset documented, classified, and tracked. So, surprises like this? They don’t happen

Uncover Hidden OT Assets

The Reality:  A technician plugs in a forgotten device during routine maintenance. It goes unnoticed for weeks. It’s running outdated firmware. You only find out after something breaks.

The Risk:  Unmanaged assets become entry points for threat actors or cause operational failure.
What Changes with OTNexus:  You gain centralized visibility across your OT landscape. Every asset documented, classified, and tracked. So, surprises like this? They don’t happen

Streamline Patch Compliance

The Reality:  Patches are released. Some assets can’t be touched due to production uptime. Others are forgotten entirely. Weeks later, a vulnerability makes headlines and it’s in your environment.
The Risk:  Missed patches mean exposed infrastructure and audit failures.
What Changes with OTNexus:  Every patch is logged, approved, and tracked. Firmware baselines are mapped. Updates are no longer a guessing game they’re a controlled process

Align IT-OT Security Controls

The Reality: IT talks policies. OT talks up time. And in the middle? Gaps in access control, undefined roles, and finger-pointing when something goes wrong.
The Risk:  Disjointed teams. Shadow access. Zero accountability.
What Changes with OTNexus: Role-based permissions, asset groupings, and change approvals give both sides clarity. Governance becomes shared, not siloed

Align IT-OT Security Controls

The Reality: IT talks policies. OT talks up time. And in the middle? Gaps in access control, undefined roles, and finger-pointing when something goes wrong.
The Risk:  Disjointed teams. Shadow access. Zero accountability.
What Changes with OTNexus: Role-based permissions, asset groupings, and change approvals give both sides clarity. Governance becomes shared, not siloed

Simplify Audit Readiness

The Reality: Your audit is in two weeks. Your spreadsheets are out of date. Your team’s scrambling to prove controls exist, let alone that they’re working.
The Risk: Failed audits, delayed certifications, and increased scrutiny.
What Changes with OTNexus:  Compliance frameworks like IEC 62443 and NCA OTCC are mapped into your workflow. Evidence logs, policy links, and risk scores ready when the auditor is

Track & Control OT Changes

The Reality: A vendor updates a device. It goes undocumented. The configuration drifts. Weeks later, a line goes down and no one knows why.
The Risk: Untracked changes disrupt operations and erode security.
What Changes with OTNexus:  Changes are requested, approved, and logged. Configuration baselines are enforced. The cause of failure is no longer a mystery

Track & Control OT Changes

The Reality: A vendor updates a device. It goes undocumented. The configuration drifts. Weeks later, a line goes down and no one knows why.
The Risk: Untracked changes disrupt operations and erode security.
What Changes with OTNexus:  Changes are requested, approved, and logged. Configuration baselines are enforced. The cause of failure is no longer a mystery

Remove Dormant Access Risks

The Reality: A contractor finishes a job, but their credentials linger in the system for weeks, sometimes months. No one notices until an internal audit raises the flag.
The Risk:  Dormant accounts with active access are goldmines for attackers.
What Changes with OTNexus: Centralized identity and access controls provide full visibility into user credentials, permissions, and session history, temporary or permanent. Integrated workflows ensure access changes are documented and can align with external IAM or security systems for enforcement.

Retain Critical Knowledge Access

The Reality: Only one person knows the full OT architecture and they’re on leave. You’re flying blind during an incident response.
The Risk:  Operational bottlenecks. Delayed recovery. Team burnout.
What Changes with OTNexus: The AI-powered chatbot provides instant access to stored Cybersecurity data, policies, and documents, even in offline mode. No more knowledge silos

Retain Critical Knowledge Access

The Reality: Only one person knows the full OT architecture and they’re on leave. You’re flying blind during an incident response.
The Risk:  Operational bottlenecks. Delayed recovery. Team burnout.
What Changes with OTNexus: The AI-powered chatbot provides instant access to stored Cybersecurity data, policies, and documents, even in offline mode. No more knowledge silos

Consolidate Your Security Stack

The Reality: Security, compliance, inventory, each has its own dashboard, its own language, and none of them talk to each other.
The Risk: Slow responses. Missed alerts. Fractured visibility.
What Changes with OTNexus: One platform. Unified modules. Full visibility. Whether it’s assets, risks, users, or patches, it’s all in one place, purpose-built for OT

Log Every OT Event

The Reality:  Anomalous behavior is spotted, but the logs are scattered, or worse, missing. No answers. Just assumptions.
The Risk:  Delayed incident response. Regulatory penalties. Damaged trust.
What Changes with OTNexus:  Every change, login, and system event are recorded in a centralized audit trail. Logs are stored securely and are always audit-ready

Log Every OT Event

The Reality:  Anomalous behavior is spotted, but the logs are scattered, or worse, missing. No answers. Just assumptions.
The Risk:  Delayed incident response. Regulatory penalties. Damaged trust.
What Changes with OTNexus:  Every change, login, and system event are recorded in a centralized audit trail. Logs are stored securely and are always audit-ready

Score & Prioritize OT Risk

The Reality: Leadership wants a risk report. You have slides, assumptions, and a rough estimate, but no quantifiable framework.
The Risk:  Unclear priorities. Misaligned investment. Poor risk posture.
What Changes with OTNexus: Built-in risk scoring, threat categorization, and compliance-linked risk dashboards let you prioritize with clarity, not instinct

Enforce Network Segmentation

The Reality: Your network diagram shows segmentation, but in reality, the same flat network connects every device from Level 0 to Level 3.
The Risk: One breach = full lateral movement.
What Changes with OTNexus: Logical segmentation tools, IP range mapping, and security zone configurations help enforce actual separation, not just theoretical boundaries.

Enforce Network Segmentation

The Reality: Your network diagram shows segmentation, but in reality, the same flat network connects every device from Level 0 to Level 3.
The Risk: One breach = full lateral movement.
What Changes with OTNexus: Logical segmentation tools, IP range mapping, and security zone configurations help enforce actual separation, not just theoretical boundaries.

Secure Legacy Systems

The Reality: An old control system can’t be patched. It’s critical, so it’s left vulnerable, and everyone just hopes for the best.
The Risk:  Known vulnerabilities remain exposed with no risk mitigation.
What Changes with OTNexus:Asset criticality tagging, risk-based exception handling, and compensating control mapping ensure no asset is forgotten or unmanaged.

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