Modern manufacturing environments run on IP networks that connect corporate IT, vendor access, engineering workstations, and OT-adjacent systems. Personam watches the behavioral layer where those connections happen, without touching production systems or disrupting operations.
Manufacturing networks have characteristics that break standard enterprise security tools, dense legacy infrastructure, third-party access, and the inability to disrupt production to patch or deploy agents.
Legitimate-looking traffic crosses from corporate IT to OT-adjacent jump servers and HMI workstations. Rules and signatures cannot establish what normal boundary traffic looks like in your environment.
Equipment vendors, system integrators, and maintenance contractors connect remotely using shared or generic accounts. Their access is authorized. What they do with it is unmonitored.
HMI workstations, historian servers, and engineering stations run Windows versions that cannot support modern EDR agents, and cannot be taken offline to patch.
Operators share logins to avoid friction on the floor. Identity-centric tools cannot distinguish between a legitimate operator and an attacker using the same account.
Once an attacker establishes a foothold in corporate IT, the path toward OT-adjacent systems is often poorly monitored. Crossing that boundary undetected is the objective.
Rule-based detection against manufacturing environments generates false positives constantly, legitimate automation traffic triggers thresholds daily, training operators to ignore alerts.
No agents. No disruption. No signatures to maintain. Personam learns the behavioral patterns of every IP-connected asset on your manufacturing network and detects when anything begins operating outside them, whether it's a vendor account, a shared credential, or a lateral movement attempt crossing the IT/OT boundary.
Personam doesn't claim to speak OT fieldbus protocols. It monitors the IP network layer where attackers actually operate, the corporate IT, vendor access paths, engineering workstations, and OT-adjacent jump hosts that connect to your production environment.
Personam operates at the network metadata layer. No software is installed on production systems, HMI hosts, or historian servers. No inline changes and no endpoint installs.
Every IT and OT-adjacent system is profiled from its first packet, including legacy hosts that cannot run agents. When any device begins behaving outside its established pattern, Personam detects it.
Personam tracks behavioral patterns, not just identities. When a shared account begins operating outside its established behavioral scope, different hours, different systems, different data volumes, the shift is visible.
Third-party vendors connecting through VPN or remote access are profiled against their own behavioral baseline. Anomalous activity by authorized vendors is detected the same way as internal threats.
Authorized vendor, authorized tools, valid credential. Traffic volume within threshold. No alert fires.
Behavioral deviation: vendor account accessing systems outside its 60-day historical scope. Pivot to historian detected as first-ever contact. Flagged for investigation.
Authorized login, authorized system, normal-looking file access. No individual tied to the account. Nothing flags.
Behavioral deviation: shared account active 3am–5am, outside any established shift pattern. File access scope expanding over 14 days. Staging velocity outside peer baseline.
Manufacturing organizations face continuous monitoring requirements across multiple frameworks. Personam's behavioral detection maps to anomalous activity detection, access control monitoring, and audit trail requirements, providing a continuous compliance evidence layer without additional tooling or manual log review.
Point your existing network infrastructure at Personam. No inline changes, no production impact, no maintenance window required.
Personam discovers and begins profiling every IP-connected asset from its first packet, including legacy hosts and OT-adjacent systems.
Within days, every asset has an individualized behavioral profile. Deviations surface automatically, no rules to write, no thresholds to configure.
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