Safeguarding critical infrastructure

Independent OT cybersecurity
assurance for critical infrastructure

Arlis Security helps infrastructure owners, operators, developers, and engineering partners understand cyber risk, secure operational technology, and protect essential functions. We combine assessment aligned with common standards, including the ISO/IEC 27000 series and IEC 62443, with practical architecture and engineering controls designed for real operating conditions.

Future proof infrastructure resilience

Where cybersecurity meets infrastructure engineering

Infrastructure is increasingly software-defined, remotely operated, and connected to suppliers and cloud services. A cyber incident can now affect physical processes, safety, availability, and the continuity of essential services.

Arlis Security starts with the system under consideration: its essential functions, physical process, operating constraints, dependencies, and credible failure modes.

We translate cyber risk into proportionate architecture, requirements, and operating practices. Where consequences demand it, independent engineering safeguards provide an additional layer of protection for the physical process.

Services

Cybersecurity assurance across the infrastructure lifecycle

Assess

Standards Assessment and Attestation

Independent assessment against applicable requirements of common standards, including the ISO/IEC 27000 series and IEC 62443. We define the scope and criteria, evaluate implementation evidence, and issue a clear attestation of the assessed alignment for owners, regulators, and lenders.

Specify

Cybersecurity Requirements and Procurement Assurance

We translate risk into testable requirements for technical specifications, tender documents, and contracts. We support supplier qualification, bid evaluation, deviation management, and acceptance criteria so security commitments remain enforceable throughout delivery.

Evaluate

Independent Vendor and Tool Evaluation

Independent evaluation of operational technology suppliers, platforms, and security tools. We assess functional fit, integration risk, component capabilities, lifecycle support, maintainability, and evidence against the system requirements and operating constraints.

Architect

OT Architecture and Design Assurance

We review and develop operational technology architecture from the system boundary through every external interface. Work covers zones and conduits, vendor remote access, enterprise and cloud connectivity, boundary protection, monitoring, resilience, and operational constraints.

Verify

Cybersecurity Commissioning and Handover Assurance

We verify that design and contract requirements are implemented before operational acceptance. Reviews cover configurations, access, asset inventories, logging, backups, recovery evidence, test results, deviations, and handover records across factory and site acceptance.

Improve

OT Security Improvement

Focused posture assessments and prioritised improvement roadmaps for operating assets. We address asset management, access governance, vulnerability and patch processes, monitoring, incident response, change control, supplier management, competence, and assurance evidence.

Recover

OT Incident Resilience and Recovery

We engineer systems to maintain essential functions during cyber incidents and restore controlled operation. Work includes degraded modes, cyber-independent safeguards, backup and recovery arrangements, response interfaces, restoration testing, and exercises that expose dependencies before an incident.

Decide

Technical Cyber Due Diligence

Independent review for acquisitions, financing, investment, and portfolio oversight. We assess architecture, control maturity, alignment with common standards including the ISO/IEC 27000 series and IEC 62443, regulatory exposure, supplier dependencies, inherited vulnerabilities, recovery capability, and remediation priorities.

Our approach

Practical security assurance lifecycle

Arlis aligns its approach with common standards, including the ISO/IEC 27000 series and IEC 62443. This connects information security management systems (ISMS) and ISO/IEC 27001 requirements with practical OT security. We assess risk, design proportionate controls, and verify implementation as infrastructure, regulation, threats, and operating conditions change.

  1. 01

    Assess and prioritise

    Define the system, assess credible risk, and establish proportionate security objectives.

  2. 02

    Design and implement

    Translate risk into architecture, requirements, responsibilities, and practical controls.

  3. 03

    Verify and improve

    Test implementation, document evidence, manage residual risk, and adapt through the lifecycle.

Why Arlis Security

Independent OT cybersecurity grounded in operational reality

01

OT cybersecurity expertise

We assess cyber risk, design secure OT architecture, define requirements, and verify implementation. Our work also covers monitoring, incident response, recovery, and continuous improvement.

02

Independent assurance

Our advice is not tied to a technology vendor, product supplier, or delivery contractor. We represent the owner's interests with clear findings, defensible priorities, and candid challenge.

03

Built for infrastructure

We apply traditional engineering rigor to cybersecurity problems, accounting for safety, availability, and deterministic operation. Our solutions reflect the realities of critical infrastructure: legacy assets, vendor access, and restricted maintenance windows.

Contact

Protect critical infrastructure, stay compliant with evolving regulation, and stay ahead of cyber threats

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