OT Service Owner for Cement Plants
One accountable owner for OT security across every cement plant you run, independent of the OEMs whose equipment is on the network, holding the roadmap for a fleet that is mostly past vendor support.
What is specific to cement
When three vendors hold the fleet, independence is the control.
Cement plants run on a concentrated installed base. In the assessed fleet, three vendors accounted for roughly three-quarters of the switches. When the same vendors also propose the security roadmap, the operator loses leverage over its own modernization spend. The OT Service Owner exists to keep that leverage on the operator's side.
- Owns the End-of-Life roadmap
- With most of the switching fleet outside vendor support, the largest OT security decision a cement operator makes is the replacement sequence. The Service Owner holds that roadmap, prioritized by production criticality and exposure, and not anchored to any single vendor's catalog.
- Governs OEM and integrator remote access
- Kiln, mill, and packing OEMs each have support paths into the plant. The Service Owner brokers, logs, and expires that access under one policy across all plants, so an integrator's VPN from a 2019 project is no longer an open door in 2026.
- Reports posture in the operator's terms
- Fleet-wide risk posture is reported per plant and per production area against the Cement & Mining OT Baseline: inventory of record, topology of record, Purdue-aligned segmentation, governed access, independent governance. Progress is visible to plant management and corporate alike.
FAQ
Service ownership questions from cement operators
Short answers. A scoping conversation covers the rest. Reach out to our team.
Get Started
Name an owner for the fleet
Tell us how many plants you run, which OEMs hold remote access today, and whether a topology of record exists for any plant. We'll return a scoped service-ownership proposal.
What you'll get
- OT governance framework with defined roles and change control
- Vendor and integrator remote-access governance across all plants
- Modernization roadmap for the End-of-Life switching fleet
- Fleet-wide risk posture reporting against the OT Baseline
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