Infrastructure Is Defended. The Conversation Around It Often Is Not.
Industrial organizations spend heavily protecting infrastructure. Operational decisions still pass through people and mobile communications. ASPIS protects the communication layer surrounding the operation.
DECISION PATH
CRITICAL SYSTEMOPERATIONS TEAMMOBILE COMMUNICATION
EXPOSURE
PHISHINGCONTRACTOR ACCESSDEVICE COMPROMISEUNMANAGED MESSAGING
THE PROBLEM
The communication layer around the operation
Industrial security spends on the plant, the grid and the network. The coordination that decides what happens to them runs on phones.
01The conversation is outside the control systemOperators, engineers, executives and responders coordinate on mobile devices that sit entirely outside the OT security perimeter the organization invested in.
02Incident response depends on it mostThe moment an operational incident begins is the moment communication matters most — and the moment an adversary is most interested in reading it.
03Field personnel on untrusted networksRemote sites, contractor networks and public connectivity, with rogue access points and spoofed networks in the path.
04Contractors and external respondersThird parties have to be brought into coordination quickly, without inheriting standing access to everything else.
05Nation-state interestCritical infrastructure operators face adversaries whose objective is disruption of essential services, not financial return.
06Continuity when systems degradeIf the coordination channel depends on the infrastructure that is failing, it fails with it.
Incident Communications
When primary systems are under attack, response communications must remain protected.
01Executive LeadershipCrisis decisions made outside compromised corporate systems.
02Security OperationsAnalyst and responder coordination on a separate protected channel.
03OperationsControl-room and plant coordination during degraded conditions.
04LegalPrivileged discussion with retention and governance intact.
05Field TeamsCommunication from sites, vehicles, and remote assets.
06External RespondersGoverned collaboration with agencies, insurers, and IR firms.
CAPABILITIES
Capabilities for essential operations
Drawn from the ShieldiT Defense and ShieldiT Protect white papers, which cover critical infrastructure operators. Availability varies by deployment.
01
Resilient secure communication
- End-to-end encrypted voice, video, messaging and file exchange for operations, leadership and response teams.
- Offline synchronization and deferred delivery in low-bandwidth or disconnected conditions.
- Federation controls governing communication with contractors and external responders.
02
Endpoint protection in the field
- On-device detection of phishing, malicious applications, rogue networks and device compromise.
- Rogue access point and man-in-the-middle detection on untrusted connectivity.
- Device risk posture monitoring including OS integrity and configuration compliance.
- Quarantine and conditional access for compromised endpoints.
03
Control and deployment
- ManageiT console for users, devices and policy, with real-time alerts and remote intervention.
- On-premises, private cloud, sovereign cloud and air-gapped deployment options.
- Operation with or without MDM/EMM integration.
04
Record and oversight
- AuditBot logging of privileged actions and administrative changes.
- Tamper-resistant audit logs for investigation and after-action review.
- Telemetry and incident forwarding to SIEM and XDR platforms.
Capability availability varies by edition, configuration and deployment model.
Operational Communication Path
FIELD & CONTROL PERSONNELMOBILE DEVICEPosture and threat detectionSHIELDITSecure operational communicationMANAGEITPolicy and contractor federationINCIDENT RECORD
OUTCOMES
What the architecture is designed to achieve
Design intent, not measured results.
01A protected coordination layerThe communication surrounding essential operations held to the same standard as the operations themselves.
02Response that works under pressureEncrypted channels for leadership, security operations, legal, field teams and external responders, available when the incident starts.
03Continuity through degraded conditionsCommunication that continues in low-bandwidth, disconnected or isolated environments rather than depending on the systems under stress.
04Controlled external participationContractors and responders brought into a conversation under federation policy, with access that ends when their involvement does.
05Endpoints that report their conditionField devices continuously evaluated before they carry operational communication.
06An evidentiary trailImmutable logging of privileged actions and administrative changes for post-incident review.
These describe what the architecture is designed to do. ASPIS makes no representation about results in any particular environment.
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