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An integrated energy company manages a diverse portfolio of heavily regulated and less regulated assets. The organization prioritizes operational continuity and is committed to strengthening cybersecurity across its industrial control systems.
- Lack of clear way to measure the ROI of OT cybersecurity investments and lack of sufficient IT-focused frameworks for industrial control systems
- Low maturity across asset management, protection, threat detection, and recovery due to limited visibility and outdated processes
- Absence of foundational data on assets and procedures that created significant technological and procedural gaps
- Adopted NIST Cybersecurity Framework to define maturity profiles and benchmark OT cyber posture across facilities
- Selected SecureOT Platform after evaluating multiple vendors against key criteria.
- Deployed five integrated SecureOT Platform components for end-to-end visibility and control.
- Doubled NIST CSF maturity scores across all categories
- Gained centralized, real-time visibility into OT assets and vulnerabilities
- Provided executive leadership with quantifiable cybersecurity ROI metrics
Challenge
Lack of Visibility and ROI Metrics
An integrated energy company with a diverse portfolio of assets significantly advanced its IT cybersecurity posture—and now they needed to do the same with their OT environment.
Their CEO and CFO needed to see a measurable return on investment for cybersecurity spending that extended beyond anecdotal evidence or intrusion tracking. The organization required a defense in depth approach and chose the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) to establish target-state profiles and benchmark progress.
The company conducted employee interviews and distributed maturity surveys across the OT environment to establish a baseline for NIST CSF, and the results highlighted critical concerns. Maturity scores were low across asset management, protective technologies, threat detection, and recovery. With limited visibility into its assets and vulnerabilities, the company lacked the foundational data needed to make informed decisions or build momentum.
Solution
Focused on Compliance and Visibility Through SecureOT Platform
The integrated energy company used SecureOT Platform, which included the following components:
- SecureOT Platform Asset Manager for comprehensive inventory across OS, networking, and embedded OT devices.
- SecureOT Platform patch management for safe, closed-loop remediation.
- Endpoint protection enabled by SecureOT Platform with antivirus and application allowlisting tailored to ICS environments.
- Backup and restore enabled by SecureOT Platform using Avamar platform from Dell EMC to scale across networks for low-bandwidth resilience.
- SecureOT Platform Reporting for simplified compliance reporting and executive visibility.
Together, these modules provided a scalable, centralized platform aligned with the NIST CSF that gave the company insight into asset status, threats, and remediation actions.
Result
Doubled Cybersecurity Maturity in 18 Months
After 18 months of using SecureOT Platform, the integrated energy company reassessed its progress against the same NIST CSF maturity profiles. Across all categories, it doubled its maturity scores—with the most dramatic gains in asset inventory, protective and detecting technologies, and backup and recovery.
Reduced Operational Overhead
SecureOT Platform also helped reduce operational overhead by automating labor-intensive tasks such as asset discovery, patch tracking, and compliance reporting. This allowed the security team to focus on higher-priority threats and strategy.
Published September 26, 2025