Navigating today’s cybersecurity regulations can feel overwhelming, especially in industrial environments where operational realities add complexity.

A compliance assessment evaluates your organization’s alignment with established frameworks such as ISA/IEC 62443, NIST Cybersecurity Framework (including ICS guidance), and NERC CIP. It compares your existing controls, processes, and documentation against required standards, clearly identifying where you meet expectations and where gaps remain.

Why It Matters in Industrial OT

For industrial organizations, compliance is no longer optional, it’s operationally critical.
Cyber incidents in OT environments don’t just impact data, they can disrupt production, impact safety, and create regulatory exposure. At the same time, evolving mandates (such as MTSA updates and sector-specific regulations) are increasing expectations for demonstrable cybersecurity maturity.

A compliance assessment ensures you are not only prepared for audits but are also building a defensible, resilient security posture. It shifts compliance from a checkbox exercise to a sustainable operational capability.

Key Components

Policy and Documentation Review

We evaluate your existing policies, procedures, and supporting documentation, from incident response to asset management. The goal is to ensure documentation is not only present, but accurate, actionable, and aligned with the target framework.

Technical Control Evaluation

Compliance doesn’t stop at documentation. We validate that technical controls are implemented and functioning as intended, reviewing segmentation, access controls, firewall configurations, and system hardening within the realities of an OT environment.

Regulatory Gap Identification

We perform a structured gap analysis to identify where your current posture diverges from required standards. The output is a clear, actionable roadmap, not just a list of deficiencies.

Remediation Planning

Closing gaps requires more than recommendations. We work alongside your team to prioritize actions based on risk, operational impact, and compliance urgency, balancing security improvements with production continuity.

Making Compliance Practical in OT

Compliance in OT isn’t always straightforward. Legacy infrastructure, uptime requirements, and safety considerations make traditional IT-driven approaches difficult to apply in practice.
A successful compliance program must account for how industrial systems actually operate, where changes must be carefully planned, validated, and executed without disrupting production.
This is where experience matters. Translating regulatory requirements into real-world implementation, while maintaining operational continuity, is what ultimately determines success.

While a gap or risk assessment provides a strategic view of your overall security posture, an OT vulnerability assessment delivers a granular, technical snapshot of where your systems are most exposed. It is a proactive, systematic process that combines OT-aware automated tools with expert manual analysis to identify, classify, and prioritize known vulnerabilities across networks, assets, and applications, such as unpatched software, insecure configurations, and legacy design flaws, that could be exploited by a malicious actor.

Why It Matters

In industrial environments, vulnerability assessments are a core component of proactive asset and security management, not just a cybersecurity exercise. Unlike IT systems, OT assets often run continuously, support safety-critical processes, and may rely on legacy hardware or operating systems that cannot be easily patched or replaced.

A thorough OT vulnerability assessment goes beyond software flaws to uncover: 

• Misconfigurations that weaken defense-in-depth 
• Unsupported or unpatched systems increasing cyber and operational risk
• Insecure access pathways that could lead to a cyber-physical incident 

Left unaddressed, these vulnerabilities increase the likelihood of unplanned downtime, safety incidents, and loss of operational control.

Key Components

Automated Scanning 

Specialized, non-intrusive OT-aware tools are used to identify known vulnerabilities across networks, devices, and applications, such as missing patches, insecure services, or default credentials. Scanning is carefully planned and executed to avoid disrupting sensitive control processes.

Manual Review 

Expert engineers perform in-depth reviews of system configurations, network architectures, access controls, and operational practices. This human analysis is essential in OT environments, where context matters and automated tools alone may overlook logical design flaws or risk-creating exceptions.

Physical Security Inspection 

In OT environments, cyber risk often starts with physical access, intentional or accidental. On-site inspections identify physical exposure points such as unsecured cabinets, control panels, removable media access, or network drops, making physical security a critical component of a true OT vulnerability assessment.

Reporting and Prioritization 

Findings are documented in a clear, actionable report that:

• Assigns severity based on operational and safety impact 
• Differentiates between vulnerabilities that can be patched, mitigated, or accepted
• Provides practical remediation guidance aligned with plant constraints 

Results are prioritized collaboratively so teams can focus first on vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk to safety, reliability, and uptime.

Champion’s OT vulnerability assessments are designed specifically for live, safety-critical industrial environments, where uptime, process integrity, and operator confidence matter as much as cybersecurity.

With Champion, OT vulnerability assessments are not a one-time scan, they are a disciplined, operations-safe process that protects what matters most: safe and reliable operations.