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Ensure Your Industrial Operations and Security Infrastructure Are Operating As Intended

Hidden gaps in asset inventories, outdated controls, and unoptimized security measures can undermine your operations. EmberOT’s Firewatch Assessment harnesses our advanced Ember sensors and deep industry expertise to perform a comprehensive health check of your OT environment. We illuminate every corner, from remote field devices to your core control systems, ensuring your assets are current and your controls are working as intended.

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What We Do

  • Comprehensive Asset Discovery & Validation: Our Ember sensors are deployed across your industrial environment to ensure every asset, from remote field devices to core systems—is accurately discovered and documented.
  • Security Tools & Controls Verification: We assess your existing security tools and controls, evaluating their segmentation and effectiveness to ensure they are optimally configured and truly protecting your assets.
  • Network Segmentation & Defense Review: We examine your network architecture to verify that your defenses are correctly segmented, isolating threats and safeguarding critical systems.
  • Actionable, Customized Recommendations: Our detailed report provides prioritized, real-world steps to ignite improvements, helping you enhance security, boost resilience, and streamline operations.
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How You Benefit

Watch the power of a pure-software sensor in action for unmatched insight into OT asset and network visibility.

  • Unmatched Visibility & Control: Illuminate every corner of your industrial environment, ensuring no asset or control is overlooked.
  • Optimized Security Segmentation: Gain clear insights into how your security tools are deployed, enabling you to fine-tune defenses and achieve precise network segmentation.
  • Informed, Proactive Decision-Making: Receive tailored recommendations that empower you to address vulnerabilities and optimize performance in real time.
  • A Trusted Path to Progress: Firewatch Assessment not only reveals your current state but also lights the way forward, guiding you to a more secure, resilient industrial future.

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How it Works: Deploy, Monitor, and Report Back

Step 1: Pre-Configure an Ember
Step 2: Install the Ember
Step 3: Capture Data
Step 4: Extract the Data
Step 5: Get an Insight Report

Reach out to the team to get access to an Ember (sensor). We work with you to pre-configure a device of your choosing to drop into the environment.

Install the Ember on the chosen network with little configuration. Embers can be deployed without an external connection to keep data local.

The Ember passively gathers and processes traffic across the network, capturing asset data, network activity, protocols seen, and more.

After 5 days, send the Ember back to the team to extract data and generate the OT Asset Insight Report.

Meet with the EmberOT team to discuss report details, areas of interest, and overall network findings.

Our Process

Our team of Emberites deploys our state-of-the-art Ember sensors to capture real-time data across your network. We then perform an in-depth analysis, comparing your current state against industry best practices and regulatory standards. The result is a detailed report outlining your OT health, complete with actionable steps to enhance performance, security, and compliance.

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Rapid Visibility into Customer Environments

Gain relevant information around assets on the environment, detected protocols, device types, network transactions, and other relevant data. Reduce manual data gathering to understand the depth and scope of client needs quickly.

Actionable Insight for Areas of Interest

Passively gathered data highlights overall network as well as individualized asset activity. Quickly identify potential anomalies and areas within the network that need further investigation.

Map Vulnerabilities and Impact

Receive detailed information on potential risks and vulnerabilities identified in client environments. Vulnerabilities are contextualized within the client environment to better understand potential impacts of unmitigated risks and vulnerabilities.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How does EmberOT provide asset visibility in OT environments?

Embers can be deployed at any level of your environment to begin gathering relevant asset data based on activity in the network. Using both open-source and proprietary resources and databases, Embers can identify assets and metadata based on information that is being communicated across the network without disruption to the environment or any required action from operators, analysts, or other team members.

What types of assets can EmberOT’s solution identify and monitor?

EmberOT can identify any IT and OT assets connected and communicating across a network. If it has an active presence on the network, we can see it.

How does EmberOT handle compatibility with legacy systems or older industrial equipment?

Embers are able to identify assets as long as they communicate on a network. Our solution is purpose-built for OT environments and includes support for many less common or legacy industrial protocols. We also understand that every facility is uniquely constructed to meet a specific operation purpose. Our sensor is designed to integrate seamlessly into these networks to gather asset data and monitor activity without impacting sensitive assets or the network itself.

How long after I put EmberOT in place before I start seeing results?

As soon as you install an Ember and configure where you want the data to go, results can be seen almost immediately. The Ember will begin to extract asset information as soon as it sees packets on the network where it is deployed. If using the Ember’s local UI, you can view asset data as it is captured. Depending on your Ember’s data pipeline configuration, you will also start seeing asset information in your other configured data destinations such as a SIEM, SOAR, data lake, or CMDB.

Our organization currently uses a variety of hardware and software platforms, and we‘re concerned that integrating a new solution might be difficult and costly. How can EmberOT’s approach help us address these concerns?

We believe that you should be able to send your network data anywhere you need to; our solution was built with the principle of integration-first. No two OT environments are architected and deployed the same way, so we work with your teams to understand your visibility goals, what you already have in place, and work to create a deployment plan that best suits your needs. Our Embers capture data from your network and can send it anywhere you need in your environment, whether that’s a Historian, datalake, or any of the existing tools that any of your teams currently use.

Deploying EmberOT is as easy as identifying the sites or network areas where you need additional visibility and installing a sensor there. We’re flexible enough to sideload on an existing machine, run in a virtualized container, or direct install on a small piece of dedicated hardware such as a ruggedized industrial computer.

How often does my OT asset data get updated?

Sabers constantly monitor your network environment. This means we are able to detect and update asset data automatically in near real-time. There is no need to schedule updates.

How easily can EmberOT integrate into my existing systems?

Deploying an Ember can be done within a span of hours, rather than weeks or months. All you need is a place on the network for the Ember to be deployed (virtualized machine, side-loaded on existing hardware, etc.), defined destinations for the Ember to send data, and you’ll starting seeing what the Ember sees right away.

What organizations does EmberOT support?

EmberOT supports any organization with industrial, OT environments. From advanced manufacturing with factory floors in different nations to critical infrastructure such as water treatment and electricity, we are dedicated to closing the visibility gap in industrial environments. Whether you have thousands of assets across multiple sites or a dozen assets in a handful of substations, we can help you on your visibility journey.

What do I need in addition to the software to make EmberOT’s Embers work?

All an Ember needs for deployment is available compute resources. Embers can be sideloaded on existing machines, deployed on a virtualized machine, or installed onto the network with a small piece of hardware. The number of required resources depends on the amount of data being processed at each network and how frequently any updates or changes need to be sent out.

Can EmberOT’s solution be scaled up according to the organization’s needs?

Yes! Scale the number of Embers you need as you need them. Start with the most critical parts of your environment and deploy additional Embers as needed to grow your visibility alongside your networks.

My client has thousands of devices all over the world. Can EmberOT monitor that?

Yes. Embers can detect any asset on the network it lives on; there is no limit to the number of assets an Ember can detect in a given network. As long as each asset is communicating on a network with an active Ember, they will be identified and monitored. If you have devices across the world with Embers at each location, the Circle provides a centralized view of all your organization’s assets.

Can EmberOT support a fully isolated or air-gapped environment with highly restrictive security policies?

Yes. Embers are able to monitor network traffic and extract asset information and metadata without any external network connection. We are also well-suited to limited connectivity environments such as remote sites with 3G or satellite uplinks.