About OT Cyber Direct
Critical infrastructure protection doesn't need to be complicated.
Securing an industrial network shouldn't take a year of meetings before anything happens. OT Cyber Direct puts proven network hardening technologies — segmentation gateways, data diodes and TAPs, industrial firewalls, OT network monitoring — a direct order away: pre-tested, priced up front, and ready to deploy, so the time from decision to hardened network is measured in days, not quarters. OT cybersecurity, delivered in record time.
A mission we're proud to take on
The water utility serving a town of twenty thousand. The regional manufacturer running the same PLCs for fifteen years. The municipal wastewater plant, the food processor, the defense supplier three tiers down the chain. These operations keep communities running — and they are increasingly the targets of cyber attacks designed to disrupt, extort, or destroy.
Attackers don't distinguish between a Fortune 500 plant and a fifty-person operation. But the security industry does. Most OT security vendors are built to sell to enterprises: field sales teams, custom scoping, opaque pricing, procurement processes that assume a dedicated security staff on the buyer's side. Everyone else is left to fend for themselves.
We started OT Cyber Direct because we believe securing operational technology should be straightforward, affordable, and accessible to every operation that needs it — not just the ones large enough to justify a vendor's sales motion. Protecting the systems that deliver water, power, and production is critical work, and we're proud to make it easier to do.
The OT cybersecurity buying process has become a risk
Every month a segmentation gateway or monitoring sensor sits in a procurement queue is a month a control network stays exposed. The single biggest obstacle to securing more industrial systems isn't technology — it's the time and friction it takes to buy it. Cutting that cycle down is the only way to secure more systems, quickly.
The traditional way
- Fill out a contact form and wait for a sales call
- Discovery meetings before you see a datasheet
- Pricing revealed only after scoping and negotiation
- Vendor onboarding paperwork for every new supplier
- Months from identified risk to installed protection
The OT Cyber Direct way
- Full specs, datasheets, and compatibility info published up front
- Transparent hardware pricing — no meetings required to see a number
- Every product pre-tested and validated in our own IT/OT lab
- Spec'd, priced, shipped — no vendor onboarding
- Days from decision to hardware on your bench
Cyber threats to industrial systems are growing faster than enterprise sales teams can schedule meetings. The fastest path to a more secure industrial base is a faster path to the tools.
What we're doing about it
OT Cyber Direct is a curated marketplace for OT security hardware — network segmentation, data diodes and TAPs, industrial firewalls, and OT network monitoring — where the research, validation, and pricing friction has already been removed. Speed shows up at every step:
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Speed of spec
Complete, accurate product data — specifications, compatibility, certifications — published where engineers can find it and paste it straight into a design or submittal. No discovery call required to learn what a device does.
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Speed of price
Hardware pricing published in the open, so budgeting and proposals happen in hours instead of weeks. Where a configuration genuinely needs scoping, quotes come from people who know OT — fast.
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Speed of transaction
Order directly, with clean component-level line items your procurement process can actually approve. One supplier relationship covering multiple validated vendors — instead of onboarding each one separately.
Our Team
Decades inside the OT security industry — on the vendor side, the integrator side, and the plant floor — now put to work making that industry easier to buy from.
Jim Crowley
OT Cybersecurity Expert
With 15 years of experience in operational technology security, Jim has held senior leadership roles at Security Matters, Forescout, Industrial Defender, and Veracity Industrial Networks.
Phil Dunbar
OT Security & SCADA Specialist
Phil leads our testing and validation efforts through Maple Grove Labs. He brings 30+ years of experience from GE, Schneider Electric, Siemens, and Industrial Defender.
Ian Crowley
E-Commerce & Digital Marketing Leader
Ian oversees platform operations and brings deep B2B digital marketing experience from OT security firms like Nozomi Networks and CyberX (acquired by Microsoft).
Secure your OT environment — directly, simply, and with confidence.
Browse validated OT security hardware with the specs and pricing already on the page, or talk to someone who's spent a career in industrial control systems.