OT & ICS Cybersecurity Risk Assessments
Right-sized Solutions to fit all OT environments
At LeveL5Cyber, we help organizations identify and manage their most critical cybersecurity risks—especially within Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Our tailored OT cybersecurity assessments provide a clear view of your infrastructure’s vulnerabilities, ensuring you can make informed decisions to secure critical systems and comply with industry standards.
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What is an OT Risk Assessment?
An OT & ICS Cybersecurity Risk Assessment is a comprehensive evaluation of your OT environment. It examines assets, network architecture, system vulnerabilities, threat vectors, and organizational practices to determine your exposure to cyber risk. The result is a strategic risk profile and an actionable roadmap to reduce your attack surface and boost cyber resilience.
Why is an OT Risk Assessment Important?
Cyberattacks on industrial systems can result in physical disruption, safety hazards, regulatory violations, and massive financial losses. An OT risk assessment allows you to:
- Identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in real time
- Improve system uptime and operational continuity
- Align with cybersecurity frameworks like NIST CSF and IEC 62443
- Strengthen compliance with government and industry regulations
- Prepare for audits and acquisition due diligence
Industries That Benefit from Industrial Cybersecurity Assessments
In technology, threats change rapidly depending on the industry and must be assessed and managed
Our industrial cybersecurity assessments benefit a wide range of industries:
- Agriculture: Defining steps that detail how to implement a Cybersecurity Plan
- Critical Manufacturing: Effectively addressing threats and protecting significant manufacturing industries that may be susceptible to an incident
- Defense Industrial Base: Defending our nation’s most critical infrastructures to allow delivery of work products and other components to continue safely
- Financial Services: Understanding and reducing risks including power outages and cyberattacks unique to the financial sector
- Pharmaceutical: Finding gaps at every level with a customized approach and actionable steps
Industrial cybersecurity assessments also benefit other critical infrastructure verticals, such as Chemical, Life Sciences, Oil & Gas, Food & Beverage, and Healthcare. Each industry faces unique challenges, and our engineers are highly skilled and qualified to find those and scale operations.
If your organization depends on ICS, SCADA, or OT systems, you are a prime target for cyber threats—and a strong candidate for a cybersecurity risk assessment
Our Risk Assessment Process
Our veteran-led team tailors every assessment to your operations, regulatory landscape, and business goals. The process may include:
- Asset Discovery – Complete inventory of OT/ICS assets
- Threat Modeling – Identify likely attack vectors and adversary tactics
- Vulnerability Assessment – Detect weaknesses in systems and architecture
- Risk Evaluation – Analyze the impact and likelihood of cyber incidents
- Mitigation Planning – Deliver prioritized actions to reduce risk and improve security posture
Post-assessment, LeveL5Cyber also offers implementation support, including segmentation programs, firewall lifecycle management, and enablement services for OT teams.
Why Choose LeveL5Cyber?
We’re more than consultants—we’re experienced Operators. Our team has protected mission-critical systems for the U.S. military, defense contractors, Fortune 10 thru Fortune 500 companies, and Small-to-Midsized Businesses. We understand the constraints, risks, and complexity of industrial environments and bring proven methodologies that produce business outcomes.
- Veteran-led, operator-experienced team
- Deep OT and ICS domain expertise
- Regulatory and compliance-focused approach
- Trusted by global leaders in critical infrastructure.
Frequently Asked Questions
decades of hands-on experience in cybersecurity
LeveL5Cyber’s Risk Assessments enable organizations to inform and prioritize decisions regarding cybersecurity. The services take into consideration today’s evolving threat landscape to drive cybersecurity priorities with an outcome-driven approach using industry standard processes.
While timing can vary, most Assessments will take approximately five to six weeks to complete. Program Development services may take longer based on the scope.
The ISA/IEC 62443 series of standards define requirements and processes for implementing and maintaining electronically secure industrial automation and control systems (IACS). These standards set best practices for security and provide a way to assess the level of security performance.
A NIST Special Publication provides guidance on how to secure operational technology (OT) while addressing their unique performance, reliability, and safety requirements. OT encompasses a broad range of programmable systems and devices that interact with the physical environment (or manage devices that interact with the physical environment). These systems and devices detect or cause a direct change through the monitoring and/or control of devices, processes, and events. Examples include industrial control systems, building automation systems, transportation systems, physical access control systems, physical environment monitoring systems, and physical environment measurement systems.
A NIST Special Publication that provides recommended requirements for protecting the confidentiality of controlled unclassified information (CUI)
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