For CISOs, visibility across distributed OT is the first step to control.
- No Cloud. No Data Leaving Your Network. Fully self-hosted inventory across every terminal, depot, and distribution hub
- No Hardware Sensors. No Added Infrastructure. Pure software discovery deployed without touching operational equipment
- One Inventory. Every Location. Rail, port, warehouse, and distribution facilities unified into a single, live asset record
Why Transportation & Logistics CISOs choose OTbase across their operational network
Built for environments that are geographically distributed by design
Transportation and logistics OT environments do not exist in one building or one campus. They span terminals, depots, sorting hubs, and rail corridors across cities, regions, and countries. Each location carries its own OT assets, its own documentation gaps, and its own risk exposure.
OTbase deploys locally at each site and consolidates asset data into one central inventory running entirely within your environment. Every location is visible from a single view without routing operational network data through external systems or cloud infrastructure.
Discovery that does not interrupt operations that run continuously
Transportation and logistics operations do not stop. Conveyor systems, automated sorting equipment, rail signaling controllers, and terminal management systems run around the clock. OTbase uses passive traffic analysis to identify devices without sending requests toward them, and safe active querying to retrieve deep asset metadata only where appropriate.
The inventory is built and maintained without a maintenance window, without operational coordination, and without creating a single disruption to the systems your organization depends on to keep freight and passengers moving.
Asset depth that goes beyond device names and IP addresses
Knowing a device is on the network is not the same as knowing what it is, what firmware version it is running, or whether it carries a published vulnerability. OTbase captures firmware versions, hardware revisions, serial numbers, device models, and network topology for every asset it discovers.
That depth is what makes CVE mapping actionable, compliance documentation defensible, and change detection meaningful — because you are tracking the actual state of each asset, not just its presence on the network.
A geographically distributed OT environment with no unified inventory is not a visibility challenge. It is an unquantified attack surface.
Transportation and logistics OT environments carry a specific combination of risk factors that make incomplete asset visibility particularly consequential. Operations are continuous. Disruption has direct commercial and public impact. And the OT estate spans dozens or hundreds of locations — each maintained locally, each with its own documentation practices, and none of it consistently reconciled into a picture the central security team can actually work from.
The PLC controlling a conveyor at a regional distribution hub, the SCADA system managing a port terminal's crane fleet, the signaling controller at a rail depot — these assets exist, they are connected, and in most cases they appear nowhere in a current, centrally maintained security record. The engineers who commissioned them know they are there. The CISO's team does not.
Regulatory expectations for transportation OT security are increasing. TSA Security Directives covering surface transportation and pipeline operations, alongside IEC 62443, establish asset inventory as a baseline requirement — not an aspirational control. Organizations relying on per-site spreadsheets and periodic manual surveys are not meeting that baseline.
What Transportation CISOs Carry Without a Live Inventory
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Unknown assets operating on critical networks Equipment added during infrastructure upgrades, maintenance activities, or facility expansions frequently goes undocumented. Each undocumented asset is a monitored gap in your security coverage at a location you may not visit for months.
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CVE exposure you cannot map to specific locations A vendor advisory affecting a specific firmware version of a terminal controller means nothing to your team unless you know which terminals are running that firmware version. Without a current inventory, that mapping does not exist.
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Compliance documentation assembled location by location Meeting TSA or IEC 62443 audit requirements across a distributed estate means aggregating documentation from dozens of sites. Without a centrally maintained inventory, that process is a recurring manual project that produces a result that is already outdated by the time it is submitted.
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Incident response delayed by asset discovery When a security event occurs at a remote terminal or distribution hub, the first task of the response team should not be determining what assets are present at that location. An incomplete inventory turns the first hours of every incident into a discovery exercise.
One inventory. Every terminal, depot, hub, and corridor.
Rail depots maintain their own records. Port terminals keep their own documentation. Each distribution hub has an engineering file that reflects what was installed at commissioning — not what was added during the last infrastructure upgrade or equipment replacement cycle. None of it is connected, and none of it is current.
OTbase replaces all of it with a single, automatically refreshed inventory built from what is live on your network across every location. No manual reconciliation across sites. No chasing local teams for updated documentation before an audit. One view that stays accurate without anyone maintaining it.
- Asset documentation maintained separately at each location with no central reconciliation
- Inventory reflects installation and commissioning records, not the current network state
- CVEs cannot be mapped to specific sites or devices without confirmed firmware version data
- Compliance documentation requires a manual aggregation effort across every location before each audit
- Equipment added or changed between audits creates undocumented gaps that persist until the next site visit
- One live inventory spanning every terminal, depot, distribution hub, and operational site
- Asset records refresh automatically every 24 hours without input from local site teams
- CVEs mapped to exact firmware versions and device models at each specific location
- Compliance exports generated directly from the live central inventory — not assembled from per-site files
- Equipment additions and changes appear in the inventory automatically as they connect to the network
How OTbase builds and maintains your distributed OT inventory
OTbase runs locally at each operational site. No OT traffic transits external systems. Structured asset data — not raw traffic — flows to your central inventory instance across every location.
A new depot, terminal, or acquired logistics facility. In the inventory from day one.
Every new site added to a transportation or logistics network — whether a greenfield depot, an expanded terminal, or a facility brought in through acquisition — arrives with an OT environment the central security team has not seen. Local equipment. Local network topology. Documentation that exists only at the site level, if it exists at all. The security exposure begins the moment that site connects to the corporate network.
OTbase discovers the new environment using the same process it applied to every existing location. Connect the site. It identifies what is running. The central inventory expands automatically — no manual survey, no per-site onboarding project, no delay between connectivity and visibility.
- The new site appears in the central inventory from first network connectivity
- CVE mapping applies to new site assets immediately — no manual device data entry required
- No separate onboarding project needed before the CISO has visibility into the new location
- Site-level and central access controls apply from day one, consistent with every other location in the inventory
Every day a connected site is undocumented is a day of unquantified exposure.
In a distributed transportation and logistics environment, an undocumented site is not an isolated risk. It is a connected entry point into the same network that carries your operational data, your terminal management systems, and your corporate infrastructure. The exposure does not stay local.
OTbase closes the gap between connectivity and documented visibility. From the day a new site joins the network, its assets are part of your central inventory, your CVE mapping, and your compliance record — without waiting for a project to begin.
Not after a manual site survey. Not after an integration workstream is approved. From the first day of network connectivity, the site is visible to your security team alongside every other location in your estate.
See what is actually running across your operational network
In 30 minutes, we will show you exactly how OTbase discovers, inventories, and monitors a distributed transportation and logistics OT environment. No slides. A working demonstration using the same configuration used by multi-site operators.
- How dual-path discovery identifies OT assets at each location without disrupting operations
- What a complete OTbase asset record contains for a terminal controller, PLC, or SCADA system in your environment
- How the inventory consolidates across rail, port, warehouse, and distribution facilities into one central view
- How CVE mapping works against your specific installed firmware versions and device models at each site
- How compliance exports satisfy TSA Security Directive and IEC 62443 requirements without manual aggregation effort