Closing Out the Year With a New Beginning: The Launch of OTOPIQ Security

As we close out the year, we’re formally introducing OTOPIQ Security — a new OT Cybersecurity company built to address the growing gap between how OT environments operate and how they are currently secured. Backed by Awz Ventures, a global investment firm driving deep-tech innovation and resilience with dual-use applications across the commercial and defense sectors, and a strategic investor in OT cybersecurity, OTOPIQ was created to deliver a unified, device-focused platform that supports the way industrial environments and their operators function.

The Operational and Cyber Gaps Driving The Formation of OTOPIQ Security 

When we looked at how most OT environments are secured today, one thing stood out: the focus is almost entirely on the network. But in reality, many OT issues start inside the environment itself — on the controlling devices, HMIs, workstations, and configurations that keep operations running.

Despite that, most tools on the market are designed to monitor traffic or alert after something has already happened. They don’t show what changed inside a controller or workstation, who made the change, or how it affects the process. They also don’t give teams a reliable view of their assets, configurations, access activity, or day-to-day operational changes.

The complexity of OT environments makes this gap even wider. Organizations run equipment from different vendors and eras, use mixed protocols, and operate across remote or isolated sites. Many of these systems were never built to integrate with modern monitoring tools, which makes consistent visibility and control extremely difficult when relying on network-centric products.

And the challenges aren’t the same across the organization. Security teams are focused on rising external threats, insider access, and unauthorized changes. Operations teams are dealing with multi-vendor environments, limited visibility, and traceability issues. Both sides carry responsibility for keeping systems safe and reliable, but each sees only part of the picture, and neither has a complete view of what’s happening inside their OT environment.

Developing OTOPIQ: Our Platform’s Secret Sauce

To close the visibility, control, and protection gaps in OT environments, we needed to start at the device level—the layer most exposed to configuration tampering and operational risk. This is where OTOPIQ came in, building on device-level technology and extending it into a broader platform designed for how industrial environments actually run.

The underlying technology ensured configuration integrity and prevented unauthorized changes on critical devices. OTOPIQ expanded this foundation with AI-driven behavioral understanding, real-time monitoring of logic and system changes, and workflows that reflect how security and operations teams manage their environments day-to-day.

Individually, device-level control addressed a key gap. Unified under OTOPIQ, it evolved into a single platform that delivers visibility, protection, and resilient oversight across multi-vendor assets—ensuring secure, predictable, and uninterrupted operations where it matters most: inside the machines that keep industry running.

Beyond the “AI” Buzzword: Self-Learning AI Engine for Comprehensive OT Security

AI in cybersecurity solutions is often positioned broadly, but OT environments require a far more precise and grounded approach. OTOPIQ incorporates a self-learning engine that continuously models how devices behave, configurations evolve, and operational sequences typically run. Unlike static rule sets, the engine learns directly from real usage and adapts to operational context over time, reflecting how environments actually function.

This allows the platform to automatically apply a native protection mechanism on any device type, in a scalable manner, while also identifying meaningful deviations, such as unexpected logic edits, unusual access patterns, or process steps occurring out of sequence, and present them with clear operational context rather than generalized alerts. By connecting behavioral changes to configuration integrity, OTOPIQ highlights early signs of tampering, misconfigurations, or risky actions long before they escalate into downtime or disrupted operations, giving teams time to respond proactively.

Bringing it All Together: A Unified Platform for Security and Operations

OTOPIQ was built to give organizations a clearer and more practical way to secure and manage their OT environments. By bringing together device-level security technology, network-based monitoring capabilities and a self-learning AI engine and unifying them into a single platform, we created a solution that serves both security and operations teams and reflects the realities of how industrial systems actually run. Instead of relying on fragmented tools or partial visibility, organizations can now work from one place that connects the devices, the configurations, and the day-to-day activity happening inside their environment.

As we introduce OTOPIQ, our goal is clear: provide a one-stop platform that delivers the visibility, protection, and control OT teams have been missing. The platform brings together device-level insight, operational context, and consistent oversight across vendors, equipment generations, and site types, helping organizations strengthen their operations and reduce risks that stem from limited visibility and disconnected tools.