Grid telemetry watched with the same rigour as substation access.
Utility networks carry two kinds of traffic that must never be confused: operational telemetry that cannot tolerate interference, and corporate traffic that behaves like any other office. NetworkFort baselines both separately and watches the boundary between them.
Availability outranks everything.
A security control that risks operational continuity is not a security control in this sector. Everything about the deployment reflects that.
Passive by default
Traffic is mirrored, never intercepted. Nothing sits in the operational path.
Telemetry baselining
SCADA and metering traffic profiled at protocol level, including its rhythm.
Boundary enforcement
The IT-OT crossing is the most watched segment in the estate.
Maintenance awareness
Planned windows are declared in advance so scheduled work is never an alert.
Evidence that survives an audit.
The reporting requirements in this sector are specific. The evidence trail is built to match them.
- Timestamped detection recordEvery deviation dated to the second, retained and exportable.
- Access accountabilityWho reached which substation segment, when, from where.
- Segmentation verificationProof that boundaries hold in traffic, not just in the network diagram.
Four stages, none of them intrusive.
Sequenced so that operations teams stay in control throughout.
Mirror
Collection points at the corporate boundary and each substation aggregation layer.
Profile
Operational protocols baselined separately from corporate traffic.
Watch the crossing
The IT-OT boundary gets the tightest thresholds in the estate.
Report
A written weekly review, formatted for the people who have to file it.
What the baseline returns.
Figures from live engagements in this sector.
Said by someone who runs it.
A representative account of a NetworkFort engagement in this sector.
The boundary between our corporate network and the operational side was documented but never verified. Within a fortnight we had traffic evidence that two rules were not doing what we thought.
Sector-specific answers.
The objections that come up in every one of these conversations.
Will this touch our SCADA traffic?
Do you understand industrial protocols?
Can it run in an air-gapped segment?
What about compliance reporting?
Bring your IT-OT boundary.
We will show you what passive baselining surfaces at the crossing, on a mirrored segment.