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Shieldworkz Announces OThello, an AI-Powered OT Cybersecurity Platform for Risk Assessment, Penetration Testing and Threat Intelligence
New platform brings OT-native assessment, security testing and threat intelligence into a single environment, helping industrial security teams accelerate decision-making without compromising operational continuity
Shieldworkz, an industrial and operational technology cybersecurity company, today announced the launch of OThello, a new OT-native cybersecurity platform designed to help security teams assess risk, identify vulnerabilities and monitor threats across industrial environments.
Built specifically for Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS), OThello brings three capabilities into a single platform: OThello Assess, OThello Pentest Studio and OThello Threat Intelligence. All three modules are powered by OneIQ, Shieldworkz's AI engine designed to understand industrial protocols, OT environments, asset types, security zones and operational context.
Unlike traditional cybersecurity platforms adapted from IT environments, OThello has been designed around the realities of industrial systems, where security decisions must be balanced with safety, availability and operational continuity.
New platform brings OT-native assessment, security testing and threat intelligence into a single environment, helping industrial security teams accelerate decision-making without compromising operational continuity
Shieldworkz, an industrial and operational technology cybersecurity company, today announced the launch of OThello, a new OT-native cybersecurity platform designed to help security teams assess risk, identify vulnerabilities and monitor threats across industrial environments.
Built specifically for Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS), OThello brings three capabilities into a single platform: OThello Assess, OThello Pentest Studio and OThello Threat Intelligence. All three modules are powered by OneIQ, Shieldworkz's AI engine designed to understand industrial protocols, OT environments, asset types, security zones and operational context.
Unlike traditional cybersecurity platforms adapted from IT environments, OThello has been designed around the realities of industrial systems, where security decisions must be balanced with safety, availability and operational continuity.
Addressing the complexity of OT cybersecurity
Industrial organizations continue to face a growing challenge
cybersecurity assessments, penetration tests and threat intelligence programs are often managed through separate tools, spreadsheets, documents and manual processes. For many OT teams, risk assessments can take weeks or months because evidence is distributed across multiple systems, asset information is incomplete, and security teams must manually map findings to different regulatory and industry frameworks.
OThello is designed to simplify that process.
Regulators now expect electric utilities to demonstrate mature, risk-based cybersecurity programs, reflecting lessons learned from high-profile incidents.
Addressing the complexity of OT cybersecurity
Industrial organizations continue to face a growing challenge
cybersecurity assessments, penetration tests and threat intelligence programs are often managed through separate tools, spreadsheets, documents and manual processes. For many OT teams, risk assessments can take weeks or months because evidence is distributed across multiple systems, asset information is incomplete, and security teams must manually map findings to different regulatory and industry frameworks.
OThello is designed to simplify that process.
Regulators now expect electric utilities to demonstrate mature, risk-based cybersecurity programs, reflecting lessons learned from high-profile incidents.
Three OT cybersecurity capabilities in one platform
OThello Assess
OThello Assess is designed to accelerate OT cybersecurity risk assessments and compliance programs.
The platform helps organizations evaluate their industrial environments against frameworks including IEC 62443, NIS2, NERC CIP, OTCC and CENELEC TS 50701, with support for evidence-driven assessment workflows.
Teams can upload relevant documentation, review identified assets, define critical systems and Crown Jewels, confirm zones and conduits, establish risk criteria and answer targeted questions. OneIQ then analyzes the available evidence and helps generate an assessment covering assets, threats, vulnerabilities, consequences, security levels and identified gaps.
According to Shieldworkz, the assessment workflow is designed to produce an audit-ready output in under 24 hours, with approximately 85 minutes of human input distributed across key review and decision points.
Every finding can be traced back to its source documentation, helping compliance and security teams create a more consistent evidence trail for audits and internal reviews.
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OThello Pentest Studio
OThello Pentest Studio focuses on penetration testing and vulnerability discovery across OT networks, industrial devices and firmware.
Industrial environments require a different approach to security testing. Conventional penetration testing techniques can generate traffic or commands that may affect sensitive operational systems. OThello is designed to address this challenge through OT-aware and protocol-conscious testing workflows.
The platform supports network reconnaissance, asset and device management, protocol-aware vulnerability scanning, AI-recommended test cases, exploit testing and reporting.
It supports testing across industrial protocols and technologies such as Modbus, DNP3, EtherNet/IP, Profinet and BACnet, while providing workflows intended to minimize unnecessary disruption to live operational environments.
OThello Pentest Studio also extends testing beyond the network layer to PLCs, RTUs, IEDs, embedded controllers and firmware, helping organizations identify weaknesses that may not be visible through traditional network assessments alone.
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OThello Threat Intelligence
OThello Threat Intelligence provides actor-attributed intelligence focused specifically on threats targeting OT and industrial environments.
Instead of presenting security teams with isolated indicators such as IP addresses or file hashes, the platform adds contextual information around the threat actor, campaign, tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), target sectors and infrastructure patterns.
The service includes actor-attributed threat indicators, OT threat intelligence feeds, specialist advisories, early warning alerts, campaign analysis and executive reporting.
Threat data is structured for integration with security operations workflows and can be delivered in STIX format and mapped to MITRE ATT&CK for ICS, enabling security teams to use intelligence for threat hunting, detection and incident response.
For organizations operating critical infrastructure, the emphasis is on understanding not only what indicator has appeared, but also who may be behind it, how the actor operates and what the organization should prepare for next.
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Powered by OneIQ
At the core of OThello is OneIQ, an AI engine built to understand OT environments and the operational context in which security decisions are made. OneIQ is designed to work across the three OThello modules, creating a common intelligence layer for assessments, penetration testing and threat monitoring.
Rather than replacing security professionals, OThello is designed to automate analysis and repetitive work while leaving critical decisions with the people responsible for the environment. Security teams can confirm assets, define priorities, validate findings, establish security targets and determine remediation priorities. The platform handles much of the surrounding analysis, evidence processing, framework mapping and documentation.
This approach allows organizations to combine machine-assisted analysis with human security expertise, which is particularly important in environments where a technically valid finding can still have significant operational consequences.
Powered by OneIQ
At the core of OThello is OneIQ, an AI engine built to understand OT environments and the operational context in which security decisions are made. OneIQ is designed to work across the three OThello modules, creating a common intelligence layer for assessments, penetration testing and threat monitoring.
Rather than replacing security professionals, OThello is designed to automate analysis and repetitive work while leaving critical decisions with the people responsible for the environment. Security teams can confirm assets, define priorities, validate findings, establish security targets and determine remediation priorities. The platform handles much of the surrounding analysis, evidence processing, framework mapping and documentation.
This approach allows organizations to combine machine-assisted analysis with human security expertise, which is particularly important in environments where a technically valid finding can still have significant operational consequences.
Designed for Industrial Environments
OThello is built around an OT-native architecture rather than adapting conventional IT cybersecurity workflows to industrial environments.
Industrial control systems and asset types
Industrial protocols and communication patterns
Security zones and conduits
OT risk and operational context
Industrial cybersecurity frameworks
Threat actors targeting critical infrastructure
The platform currently supports multiple cybersecurity and compliance frameworks, including IEC 62443, NIS2, NERC CIP, OTCC, CMMC 2.0 and CENELEC TS 50701, helping organizations address different security requirements through a common environment.
Helping organizations move from assessment to action
For Shieldworkz, the launch of OThello reflects a broader shift in industrial cybersecurity, from fragmented, manual security processes toward continuous, evidence-driven security operations.
The goal is not simply to produce another cybersecurity report. It is to help organizations move more quickly from understanding risk to identifying vulnerabilities, prioritizing remediation and preparing for emerging threats.
By combining assessment, penetration testing and threat intelligence in one platform, OThello gives OT security teams a common environment for understanding their security posture and making informed decisions.
Industrial cybersecurity teams do not need more disconnected tools or more generic IT security data. They need technology that understands the environment they are responsible for and helps them make better decisions without putting operations at risk. OThello was built around that principle.
OThello and the future of OT security
As industrial organizations face increasing regulatory, operational, and threat pressures, OThello brings risk assessment, safe vulnerability validation, and adversary intelligence together so security teams spend less time managing fragmented processes and more time addressing the risks that matter.
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