The lifecycle
Assess. Remediate. Operate. Lead.
Select a stage to see what happens in it, what you hold at the end, and which engagement carries it.
The first 90 days
What the opening quarter actually looks like.
Indicative shape for a first engagement. Sequence and duration move with your outage calendar, not ours.
Orientation
Drawings, standards and prior findings reviewed. Interviews with operations, engineering, IT and the vendors who hold access. No tooling deployed yet.
OT-native discovery
OT-native cybersecurity solutions deployed on the production network at agreed points. Asset and flow picture built in the protocols your systems already use, under your change control. Findings validated with the people who run the process.
Consequence analysis
Exposure mapped to physical outcomes the operation cannot accept. Prioritization argued with operations in the room rather than scored in a spreadsheet — the method behind GoSecure™.
Roadmap and handover
Sequenced program costed against real outage windows, with owners named and a board-ready investment case. Your team can run the next cycle without us.
How we engage
Recommendations have to survive the plant.
Every recommendation, from OT-native monitoring and active discovery to patching, endpoint agents and automated response, is worked through testing, change control, vendor coordination, safety cases and production constraints before it reaches the plant. Where a control needs a different route to be deployed safely, we design that route.
Engagements are scoped around your outage calendar, not ours. The senior consultant who scopes the work leads its delivery, and capability transfer is built into every phase rather than offered as an add-on.
Questions about the method
How we work, answered plainly.
How does InnovAKT run an OT cybersecurity engagement?
In four movements. InnovAKT starts with the operation — what the plant makes, what stops it, what the consequence of a stoppage is — before it looks at a single control. It then establishes the facts: assets, connections, access paths, and who actually holds them. It ranks findings by operational consequence rather than by CVSS score. And it hands back a sequence a plant can execute inside real maintenance windows, with the client's own team carrying it.
Why does InnovAKT rank risk by consequence instead of severity score?
Because a critical-rated vulnerability on an isolated historian matters less than a shared password on a safety instrumented system. A vulnerability score describes software. Operational consequence describes what happens to production, to equipment, to the environment and to people. Industrial leaders fund the second one, and it is the only ranking that survives a conversation with an operations manager.
Will an InnovAKT engagement require production downtime?
No engagement of ours begins by asking for an outage. Discovery uses OT-native cybersecurity solutions built for production networks. Anything active is scoped, tested off-line where a test environment exists, coordinated with the vendor whose system it touches, and scheduled into an existing maintenance window. Where a control cannot be applied safely, InnovAKT says so and designs a compensating one.
What does a client have at the end of an engagement?
A prioritized picture of exposure expressed in operational terms, a sequence of work with owners and dates, the artifacts the sequence needs — architecture, standards, procedures, test evidence — and the capability inside the client's team to keep running it. InnovAKT measures itself on what the client still holds after it leaves.