Operational technology (OT)
The control systems that run physical processes: power, water, pipelines, ports and plants.
Operational technology (OT) is the hardware and software that monitors and controls physical processes: the industrial control systems behind power grids, water treatment, pipelines, ports and factories. OT security is a discipline of its own: much of the installed base is decades old, was never designed for hostile networks, and cannot simply be patched or rebooted the way office IT can. A compromise does not corrupt a file; it opens a valve.
In practice
Operational technology security is its own discipline, and Unstrat approaches it with that in mind: much of the installed base running power grids, water treatment, pipelines, ports and plants is decades old, was never designed for hostile networks, and cannot simply be patched or rebooted like office IT. A compromise here does not corrupt a file. It opens a valve. Unstrat helps critical-infrastructure buyers protect these control systems in ways that respect their constraints, so essential services keep running and the mission is not put at risk. The advantage is resilience for the physical processes a nation depends on, defended without breaking the systems that deliver them. Keeping this capability under national control protects the buyer from an outside party seeing or steering their most critical processes. Localisation arrangements are scoped per programme, subject to export controls and end-use approvals.