Industrial & Manufacturing
Industrial security used to start at the gate. Now contractors connect remotely, shared credentials move across shifts and legacy OT systems are reachable from places they were never designed to meet. CyberElements checks every privileged session with AI analysis, ties every action to a named identity and keeps production moving, all from one platform.
Used by highly regulated manufacturers and multisite industries within complex environments.
Client spotlight: Fleury Michon
“CyberElements Privileged Access Management solution is the foundation of our access security strategy based on the 3-Tier model: we can centrally manage internal and external access to our OT & IT target resources while applying all Zero Trust principles.”
Nicolas Verdière
Systems Engineer, Fleury Michon
Status Quo
Factory floors were built to trust the person who made it past the gate. Connected OT changes the risk. Contractors connect from outside, shared logins blur accountability and a remote session meant to fix one machine can stop the whole line.
Unplanned downtime accounts for roughly 11% of annual revenue for large manufacturers. When ransomware hits an OT environment, the question is how many hours the line can stay down before the number gets worse.
Each vendor arrives with their own preferred remote access tool. The IT team manages a different solution for each one, traceability is scattered and when something goes wrong, reconstructing what happened takes longer than fixing it.
Shared logins, unmonitored contractor sessions and exposed OT access show up in penetration tests. Insurers see these gaps as opportunities for premium increases, exclusions or harder renewal conversations.
Business continuity plans depend on redundant systems across geographically distributed datacentres. Access often stays managed site by site. When the primary path fails, recovery turns into a console hunt before anyone reaches the backup environment.
Challenges
Most people entering OT systems have a legitimate reason to be there. That’s the problem. Contractors arrive with remote tools, operators share logins to keep shifts moving and legacy machines accept access paths they were never built to judge. Familiar faces still need named sessions, clear limits and a record of what happened.
Applications
Industrial access rarely follows one neat pattern. The same team may need to secure OT maintenance, contractor sessions, IT/OT convergence, regulated sites and multi-site operations. CyberElements brings those access paths into one control layer across IT and OT.
Production & OT
Third-party & contractors
Agri-food & regulated manufacturing
Multi-site operations
Benefits
CyberElements replaces shared logins, scattered contractor tools and unmonitored OT sessions with one control layer across IT and OT. Every user gets a named identity, every vendor gets a controlled route and every privileged session is AI-monitored while production keeps moving.
Use Cases
Industrial IT and OT teams deal with the same access pressure every week: remote maintenance sessions, contractors arriving with their own tools and audits that ask for a clean record of who touched what.
Secure Remote Access
Industrial control systems, engineering stations and OT environments are increasingly accessed from outside the building and across distributed sites. CyberElements applies ZTNA to each remote session, giving users a direct route to the systems they need while the wider environment stays invisible.
Third-Party & Vendor Access
Manufacturing supply chains involve maintenance teams, machine vendors and software editors, each arriving with their own tools and habits. CyberElements centralises external access, applies consistent rules to every contractor session and keeps a record of what happens across the supplier activity.
Audit & Compliance
ISA/IEC 62443, NIST 800-82 and cyberinsurance reviews all come back to the same question: who accessed what, when and what did they do? CyberElements produces that answer by design, as teams work, so compliance evidence is ready before anyone even thinks about rebuilding the session history.
Capabilities
As AI tools enter industrial operations, contractors may deploy their own agents on client infrastructure. CyberElements controls what each agent can access, what data it can touch and what actions it can take, while keeping proprietary production data inside approved systems.
Give workforce, contractors and remote operators access to the specific systems their work requires. CyberElements checks device posture and context continuously while access is open, so each session stays tied to the job and lateral movement stays contained.
Lens uses AI to analyse sessions involving industrial control systems, engineering stations and third-party connections. When behaviour looks unusual, Lens can pause the session before risk reaches the production floor. Recordings remain available for compliance, while Lens turns session review from after-the-fact evidence into real-time prevention.
Automate provisioning and deprovisioning across a workforce with high turnover and a supply chain with dozens of third-party relationships. Third parties get governed access through CyberElements, so they do not need to be registered in AD. Audit evidence is generated alongside every change.
Pulse gives production staff a fast behavioural MFA with no extra device, for them to access the systems they need, including environments where standard MFA is difficult to deploy. Shared credentials stop carrying the shift, and every action can be traced back to a person.
Other Industries
Insights
OVHcloud and CyberElements by Systancia announce a strategic partnership to host the cyberelements Zero Trust SaaS platform on SecNumCloud-qualified infrastructures.
Centralise and strengthen the security of internal and external access to OT and IT systems, while ensuring segregation between the two.
Learn more about Industrial Control Systems Security. This e-book covers OT security: compliance, remote access, IT/OT separation, and more.
View AllFAQs
Answers to the questions industrial IT and OT security teams ask first. If yours is not here, visit our full FAQ page.
Yes. CyberElements sits on top of existing infrastructure. OT systems and production operations continue without interruption during and after deployment.
Access is secured around those systems without changing or replacing them. The equipment stays where it is. Unmonitored remote access to it does not remain an option.
Yes. CyberElements enforces a single, centralised connection point for every external session, regardless of the vendor's preferred method. Every action is recorded and tied to a named identity.
The platform produces a full audit trail as the team works — who accessed what system, when, and what they did. Compliance reviews work from existing records rather than manual reconstruction.
PAM reduces the attack surface that penetration tests expose and insurers price. Several CyberElements clients have seen measurable reductions in insurance premiums after deployment.
CyberElements controls what AI agents can access on your infrastructure and restricts connections to a governed channel. Proprietary production and operational data cannot reach public AI training pipelines.
Third-party sessions, shared logins or unmonitored OT access. Pick the problem that creates the biggest production risk, and CyberElements can be running against it before the next contractor needs a way in.
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