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Manufacturing, robotics, and industrial operations

Secure production lines and embedded AI without disrupting safety or availability.

Connect asset discovery, SBOM, firmware, vulnerability, supplier, and plant telemetry to risk, remediation, and change-control evidence.

Sector problems

What this environment has to get right

  • Security work cannot stop the line.
  • Flat plant networks let one compromise reach controllers.
  • Robots and autonomous cells have physical consequences, so security controls have to respect safety.
  • Customers, especially in defense, ask for software bills of materials, vendor risk evidence, and CMMC preparation.

Regulations and frameworks

How AI SOAR supports the evidence, not the determination

Mappings help you collect and organize evidence. An assessor, examiner, auditor, or authorizing official still decides whether the obligation is met. The platform does not certify an organization or file a regulatory notice.

FrameworkWhat it asks forHow the platform helps
IEC 62443Official source ↗Secure industrial automation and control systems across zones and conduits.OT, manufacturing, and controller workflows map exposure and segmentation findings to IEC 62443.
NIST SP 800-82Official source ↗Apply OT security guidance without unsafe testing.Passive discovery and a plant digital twin support assessment and recovery planning.
Robot safety standardsIndustrial and service robots have safety duties that security work must not bypass.Robotics reviews sit alongside IEC 62443. Actions that could move equipment wait for a named person.
CMMC and NIST SP 800-171Official source ↗Defense manufacturers and suppliers protect FCI and CUI at the level the contract requires.CMMC preparation collects evidence and drafts the SSP and POA&M for the senior official. Confirm the assessment type in the current solicitation.
Software supply chainOfficial source ↗Customers and federal buyers expect software bills of materials and vendor-risk evidence.Supply-chain workflows ingest and generate CycloneDX or SPDX bills of materials and correlate components with known exploited vulnerabilities.

Typical workflows

Illustrative missions, with a person still in control

These workflows show how documented capabilities apply. They are not customer case studies, and they do not describe a guaranteed outcome.

Find exposed controllers without stopping the line

Problem
A plant suspects some PLCs are reachable from the business network.
What the platform does
Passive discovery flags protocol exposure and segmentation gaps from telemetry and OT connectors.
Human approval
A segmentation change or an active test waits for the plant engineer.
Evidence
A controller inventory, exposure findings, firmware provenance, and a remediation roadmap.

Review a new robot cell

Problem
A new cell is about to join the plant network, and safety wants a security review first.
What the platform does
The review maps the cell to the applicable robot and industrial-security standards and can simulate response on a twin.
Human approval
Any action that could move or actuate equipment is blocked until a named person approves it.
Evidence
A robotics security assessment and the simulation notes.

Answer a customer SBOM request

Problem
A customer asks for software bills of materials and proof of vendor-risk management.
What the platform does
Supply-chain workflows generate or ingest the bills, check components against known exploited vulnerabilities, and flag concentration risk.
Human approval
Product security approves what is shared outside the company.
Evidence
Bills of materials, vendor posture records, and an exposure report.

Agent roles and workflows

supply-chain risk · firmware integrity · robotics security · embedded AI attribution · OT remediation

Select the installed agents and test their models, tools, permissions, and connectors before authorizing the mission. The available catalog depends on your deployment and release.

Agent verification and testing →

Requirements in context

NIST SP 800-82 · IEC 62443 · ISO 27001 · NIST CSF · customer safety controls

Set applicability for your assets, jurisdictions, and system boundaries. Connect control owners, current policies, technical tests, exceptions, and review decisions.

Explore regulatory evidence workflows →

A practical route from scope to evidence

  1. 01

    Scope and connect

    Define the customer profile, authorized assets, and responsible owners. Secure production lines and embedded AI without disrupting safety or availability.

  2. 02

    Test and investigate

    Use supply-chain risk, firmware integrity, robotics security workflows with approved credentials and mission limits. Preserve source evidence and failures alongside findings.

  3. 03

    Remediate and verify

    Assign corrective work, obtain approvals, capture changes, and retest. Export the evidence, exceptions, and status history for business owners and assessors.

Questions for this sector

Answers you can take to a scoping call

Can OT be assessed without disrupting production?+

Yes. Assessments are evidence-only by default, and the safe profile uses passive protocol identification without fuzzing or broadcast storms.

How are agents kept from moving equipment?+

Actions that are physical, operational-technology, or actuation stay behind human approval. Agents cannot act outside the capability envelope they were given.

Does it help defense suppliers with CMMC?+

Yes. Preparation workflows collect evidence against the in-scope NIST SP 800-171 requirements and draft the system security plan and plan of action for approval. They do not certify the supplier.

Can it produce a software bill of materials?+

Yes. Supply-chain workflows ingest and generate CycloneDX and SPDX bills of materials and correlate components with known exploited vulnerabilities.