Will monitoring affect kiln or mill control?

No. Sensors observe a copy of traffic from switch mirror ports or network TAPs and inject nothing. Nothing is installed on controllers, and nothing sits inline with control traffic.

Who receives the alerts on a plant with no OT security team?

Potenza's triage, with a contracted response target, and your named plant contact. Alerts are classified in production terms (which area, which controller, what changed) rather than security jargon.

Can monitoring start before segmentation is done?

Yes, and it usually should. Visibility into what is actually talking is what makes segmentation design accurate. The topology assessment and monitoring baseline feed each other.

Cement plant with silos, conveyors, and mixer trucks

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OT Network Monitoring for Cement Plants

Continuous visibility into what is talking on the kiln, mill, and packing networks, built for control loops that cannot tolerate an active scan and for plants that never stop.

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What is specific to cement

Monitor by production area, and never touch the loop.

Cement control loops run continuously for months between kiln outages. Monitoring has to be invisible to them, useful to the people on shift, and organized around the same production areas the plant already thinks in.

01Sensors at the production-area switches: Traffic is observed from mirror ports on the switches serving each area: raw mill, kiln and cooler, finish mill, packing. That placement gives per-area baselines, so a new talker in the kiln zone is an alert while the same event in packing might just be a new printer.
02Tuned to the industrial protocols cement actually runs: EtherNet/IP, Profinet, and Modbus dominate cement plant floors, with legacy fieldbus bridged in. Detection is tuned to the behavior of those protocols between known controllers and HMIs, rather than to generic TCP volume.
03Part of a layered result, with a measured outcome: Over a multi-year engagement with a cement operator in the USA, monitoring combined with Purdue-based segmentation and switch hardening contributed to a marked drop in OT-related incidents. Monitoring alone does not produce that result; monitoring inside a governed architecture does.

FAQ

Monitoring questions from cement operators

Short answers. A scoping conversation covers the rest. Reach out to our team.

: No. Sensors observe a copy of traffic from switch mirror ports or network TAPs and inject nothing. Nothing is installed on controllers, and nothing sits inline with control traffic.
: Potenza's triage, with a contracted response target, and your named plant contact. Alerts are classified in production terms (which area, which controller, what changed) rather than security jargon.
: Yes, and it usually should. Visibility into what is actually talking is what makes segmentation design accurate. The topology assessment and monitoring baseline feed each other.

Get Started

Start with the kiln

Tell us which production areas have managed switches with mirror ports available and what monitoring, if any, is in place today. We'll return a scoped proposal.

What you'll get

Per-area traffic baselines (raw mill, kiln, finish mill, packing)
Ground-truth asset inventory from observed traffic
Incident response with a contracted response target
Weekly activity summary in production terms

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