For CISOs, automotive OT visibility is the first step to control.
- No Production Disruption. Ever. Passive and active discovery built specifically to operate without touching running processes or halting lines
- No Hardware. No Sensors. No New Exposure. Pure software deployment across every plant, line, and facility
- One Inventory. Every Plant. Assembly, stamping, powertrain, and body shops unified into a single, live asset record
Why Automotive CISOs choose OTbase across their production environment
Discovery that runs alongside production, not against it
Automotive production lines cannot stop for a security audit. OTbase uses a dual-path discovery engine — passive traffic analysis identifies devices without generating requests toward them, and safe active querying retrieves deep asset metadata only where it is safe to do so.
The result is a complete, accurate asset inventory built without halting a single conveyor, robot, or press cycle. No maintenance window required. No coordination with plant operations before your security team can see what is on the network.
Software-only deployment across every facility
Every hardware appliance added to a production network is a new point of failure and a new attack surface. OTbase eliminates that tradeoff entirely. Pure software deployment means no physical footprint to manage across stamping plants, assembly halls, or powertrain facilities.
Deploy across a new plant in the same window you would spend onboarding a hardware vendor. Extend visibility to every facility without adding infrastructure complexity to environments that cannot afford it.
Asset depth that supports real security decisions
A list of IP addresses is not an inventory. OTbase captures firmware versions, hardware revisions, serial numbers, installed modules, and network topology for every device it discovers — PLCs, HMIs, robots, CNC controllers, and safety systems included.
That depth is what enables accurate CVE mapping against your specific installed base, defensible compliance documentation, and change detection that surfaces deviations before they become incidents.
Your plant floor has hundreds of OT devices. Your security team has documentation for a fraction of them.
Automotive production environments are among the most complex OT landscapes in manufacturing. Dozens of robot controllers, hundreds of PLCs, CNC machines, HMIs, safety PLCs, and vision systems — from multiple vendors, across multiple generations, running proprietary protocols that were never designed for network visibility.
Plant engineers know their lines. Security teams rarely have the same depth of knowledge, and the documentation that does exist reflects what was installed and commissioned, not what is currently running, currently connected, or currently carrying a known vulnerability.
IEC 62443 requires a maintained asset inventory as a foundational security control. What most automotive manufacturers have instead is a patchwork of per-facility records, engineering drawings from commissioning, and institutional knowledge that walks out the door when experienced staff retire or move on.
What Automotive CISOs Carry Without a Live Inventory
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Undetected devices on the production network Maintenance laptops, engineering workstations, and legacy controllers added during line changes often never make it into any documented record. Each one is a gap in your monitored attack surface.
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CVE exposure mapped to the wrong firmware versions Vendor advisories reference specific firmware versions. Without knowing exactly what firmware version is running on each PLC or robot controller in your environment, CVE prioritization is based on estimates, not facts.
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Compliance posture built on stale data IEC 62443 audits require current documentation. An inventory assembled from engineering records and floor walks before an assessment is not a security control — it is a reconstruction under pressure.
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Change detection that depends on someone noticing In an automotive OT environment, unauthorized configuration changes on a safety PLC or robot controller may not produce an immediate operational symptom. Without automated change tracking, deviations from approved baselines go undetected until something fails.
One inventory. Assembly, powertrain, stamping — every line, every plant.
Each production facility maintains its own records. Commissioning documentation for the assembly line. A separate spreadsheet for the powertrain plant. Engineering drawings that reflect the original installation but not three model cycles of line changes since.
OTbase replaces all of it with a single, automatically refreshed inventory built from what is live on your network today. Every plant. Every line. One view that does not require a manual update to remain accurate.
- Asset documentation maintained separately per plant with no consistent format or update cycle
- Inventory reflects commissioning records, not the current state of the production network
- CVEs cannot be mapped to specific devices without confirmed firmware version data
- Compliance documentation is manually assembled before each audit and immediately goes stale
- Line changes and equipment additions create undocumented gaps in the asset record
- One live inventory spanning every production facility and plant
- Asset records refresh automatically every 24 hours without manual input from plant teams
- CVEs mapped to the exact firmware versions and device models running on your production lines
- Compliance exports generated directly from the live inventory — not reconstructed before each audit
- Line changes and new equipment appear in the inventory automatically as they come online
How OTbase builds and maintains your production floor inventory
OTbase runs locally within each plant network. No OT traffic transits external systems. Structured asset data — not raw traffic — flows to your central inventory instance.
A new plant or acquired facility added to your network. Already in the inventory.
Every greenfield plant startup or acquired production facility brings an OT environment the central security team has never seen. New vendors. New equipment generations. Network topology that exists only in the minds of the engineers who commissioned it. The exposure begins the moment the facility connects to your network, not when the integration project is funded.
OTbase discovers the new environment using the same process it applied to every existing plant. Connect it to the network. It identifies what is running. The central inventory expands automatically.
- The new facility appears in the central inventory from first network connectivity
- CVE mapping applies to the new environment immediately — no manual data entry required
- No separate onboarding project needed. No additional budget cycle before the CISO has visibility
- Plant-level access controls are applied from day one — site teams see their environment, central security sees everything
The window between connectivity and visibility is where risk accumulates.
Every unmanaged device in a newly connected facility is a potential entry point that your existing monitoring does not cover. In an automotive environment where production networks are interconnected across sites, that exposure does not stay contained to the new plant.
OTbase closes the window between network connectivity and documented visibility. From the day the new facility connects, its assets are part of your inventory, your CVE mapping, and your compliance record.
Not at the end of a multi-month integration project. Not after a line-by-line manual survey. From the first day of network connectivity, the plant is visible.
See what is actually running across your production environment
In 30 minutes, we will show you exactly how OTbase discovers, inventories, and monitors an automotive manufacturing OT environment. No slides. A working demonstration using the same configuration used by multi-plant operators.
- How dual-path discovery identifies production floor assets without disrupting running lines
- What a complete OTbase asset record contains for a PLC, robot controller, or HMI in your environment
- How the inventory consolidates across assembly, stamping, powertrain, and body shop facilities
- How CVE mapping works against your specific installed firmware versions and device models
- How compliance exports satisfy IEC 62443 requirements without manual documentation effort