octoplant
Software for production resilience and IT security
octoplant is the established industry standard for archiving, versioning, and comparing entire production environments, ensuring rapid recovery and protection against unwanted changes.
octoplant enables industrial companies to avoid production downtime and significantly increase production efficiency and safety by providing a complete view of all processes involving OT and IT devices.
This is the software octoplant.
Centralize data for complete visibility
Consolidate data storage to provide greater control and more efficient management of your programs.
Increase productivity and reduce downtime
Avoid downtime costs and increase overall equipment efficiency.
Speed disaster recovery
In the event of an emergency, correct program data can be restored by simply pressing a button.
Reduce the risk of cyber attacks
Safeguard your OT environment by quickly identifying and remediating critical security vulnerabilities on the factory floor.
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The definitive software for manufacturing resilience and OT security
OT Security and Vulnerability Management for Production
INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS BACKUP
Get vendor-neutral, secure, and automated backups that regularly capture production data, ensuring a reliable system image. This saves time, reduces errors, and keeps the correct version available for quick recovery.
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VERSIONING, VERSION CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT
Gain full visibility into all changes made to your production environment. Powerful version management lets you track, roll back, and manage document, code, and system versions, ensuring transparency, traceability, and seamless collaboration.
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CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Gain precise control over changes made by service providers, ensuring transparency and minimizing production risks. Automated monitoring, alerting functions, and a complete change history help maintain quality, reduce downtime, and simplify change management.
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OT SECURITY
Improve OT security by identifying, assessing, and providing actionable insights into common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) that impact production assets. By proactively mitigating risks, it helps safeguard industrial environments, ensures compliance with standards such as NIS2 and NIST, and strengthens resilience against cyber threats, ensuring continuous and secure operations.
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VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT
Access comprehensive criticality scores and detailed asset insights to identify, prioritize, and mitigate high-risk threats, ensuring a proactive and effective cybersecurity strategy for your entire equipment landscape.
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ASSET MANAGEMENT
Manage assets with a comprehensive view of factories, organizations, or sites, regardless of vendor. Centralized visibility enables better monitoring, management, and optimization of all connected assets, helping identify inefficiencies, detect unauthorized changes, and improve safety and overall operational performance.
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NIS-2 / NIST REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
It ensures complete traceability and automated documentation to meet industry standards such as NIS-2, NIST, FDA, and GxP. With detailed audit trails, controlled release processes, and system validation, it simplifies audits, reduces the risk of non-compliance, and helps meet regulatory requirements.
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NIS-2 Directive: Overview of EU Requirements
NIS-2: The future of cybersecurity in the EU
The Network and Information Security Directive (NIS-2) is revolutionizing the security landscape.
Here are its main features:
More stringent safety requirements
- Increased supply chain security
- Simplification of reporting obligations
- Implementation of more stringent supervisory measures
Harmonized sanctions
- Stricter enforcement rules
- Harmonized sanctions at EU level not yet quantified
Risk assessments and multi-factor authentication
- Integration of risk assessments
- Implementing multi-factor authentication
- Implement security procedures for employees with access to sensitive data
Supply Chain Security and Incident Reporting
- Creating business continuity plans
- Defining reporting requirements for security incidents
- Management liability for failure to comply with IT security requirements
Entities and companies affected by the NIS-2 Directive
- Essential Service Providers:
Including energy, transportation, water, banking, financial market infrastructure, and healthcare. - Significant digital service providers:
Including public administration, aerospace, research, postal services, waste management, mechanical engineering. - Key digital service providers:
Such as search engines, cloud computing services, online marketplaces. - Production and manufacturing of goods:
Including the automotive and medical device sectors, food manufacturing and processing, and pharmaceuticals.
Measures to be taken in accordance with NIS-2 standards
Management Responsibilities
Company management is responsible for monitoring and participating in cybersecurity training. Violations may result in sanctions and temporary suspension from management roles.
Business Continuity Plan
Companies must have plans in place to manage major cyber incidents, including system recovery, emergency procedures, and the establishment of a crisis response team.
Reporting obligations
Critical and significant entities must have procedures in place to promptly report security incidents that have a significant impact on their service provision or recipients.
Risk management
- Incident management
- Increased supply chain security
- Increased network security
- Better access control
- Data encryption
How Octoplant Improves Cybersecurity
The new EU directive aims to protect IT and OT systems from cyberattacks by increasing their resilience. Octoplant version control software can help you meet the requirements and ensure your IT and OT infrastructure complies with the required standards.
Resource management
- octoplant provides a complete change history, detailing what changes were made, by whom, when, and why.
- Automatic notifications about unintended changes help you identify and address potential security risks early.
- Granular access management ensures that only authorized personnel can make changes to their devices.
Risk and vulnerability management
- octoplant monitors assets and automatically notifies companies of vulnerabilities and risks, comparing them against Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE).
- A separate risk score for each asset highlights potential threats.
- Additional preventative features, such as change and vulnerability detection, actively help prevent service disruptions.
Business continuity management
- octoplant provides version control and automatic backups for all operational technology devices, ensuring rapid recovery of critical programs and data at all times.
- This reduces downtime by an average of 13 hours per year.
