Critical systems
Control Blueprints by industry
Your estate is different. The path discipline is not.
Each sector has its own regulator and its own estate layout. Pick yours to see its Blueprint: the zones, the modules, the frameworks and the evidence.
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Choose your industry
Thirteen estates, thirteen Blueprints.
Each card opens a full Blueprint for the sector: the estate, the modules, the regulatory anchors and the operator workflows.
- Control BlueprintUtilities
Policy-enforced paths across generation, distribution and metering.
- NCSC CAF
- NIS2
- Control BlueprintWater
OT segmentation and evidence trails for treatment and distribution.
- NCSC CAF
- DWI
- Control BlueprintEnergy
Grid, generation and market systems separated by governed paths.
- NIS2
- IEC 62443
- Control BlueprintOil and gas
Upstream, midstream and downstream held under module policy.
- IEC 62443
- Control BlueprintTelecoms
Signalling, subscriber and support estates protected at the management plane.
- TSA
- NIS2
- Control BlueprintColocations and data centres
Tenant isolation, cross-connect governance and shared-fabric protection.
- ISO 27001
- NIS2
- Control BlueprintDefence
Programme data and mission systems governed by physical path control.
- DEFSTAN
- JSP 440
- Control BlueprintPublic sector
Central and local government estates segmented for resilience and audit.
- NCSC CAF
- GovAssure
- Control BlueprintBanking
Payments, ledgers and admin planes governed by policy rather than trust.
- DORA
- FCA
- Control BlueprintHealthcare
Clinical, imaging and admin estates held apart by enforced paths.
- DSPT
- NIS2
- Control BlueprintRetail
Point-of-sale, loyalty and supplier estates separated to contain lateral movement.
- PCI DSS
- Control BlueprintConstruction
Project data, design files and site systems governed across joint ventures.
- ISO 27001
- Control BlueprintEducation
Research data, safeguarding evidence and admin estates on separate paths.
- DfE
- Cyber Essentials
What every Blueprint shares
Four disciplines,
applied to different estates.
The systems vary by sector. The way paths are governed stays the same.
Segment
Splits estates into zones so one compromise cannot spread.
Enforce
Opens each privileged path by policy, time-limits it and closes it automatically.
Verify
Checks identity at the path rather than trusting network location.
Evidence
Produces an audit trail for each session that regulators and insurers can review.
- 13
- Regulated sectors mapped to Control Blueprints
- Layer 1
- Governance enforced in hardware
- 36 months
- Commitment behind every deployment
By need
Start from the need instead.
Six needs across systems and access, from critical systems to AI agents. Each leads to the Blueprint built for it.
Ransomware
Ransomware does not break in everywhere. It travels.
ExploreLive incidents
Contain a live incident.
ExploreThird parties
Your suppliers need access. They do not need a permanent doorway.
ExploreAI systems
AI systems act on their own. Their access should still be bounded.
ExploreData centres
You own the racks. You rarely own every route into them.
ExploreOther routes in
Prefer to start somewhere else?
You can also start from the modules, or the hardware that enforces the paths.
Control modulesThe modules that make up a deployed Control fabric.See the modulesData protection & storage
Offline Secure Storage®
OSS protects stored business data, recovery copies and retained evidence through physical disconnection. It is a separate storage service, not a Control module or a network containment function.
Control by Firevault governs selected physical connections. Existing detection tools and authorised operators decide when to act. OSS does not detect incidents, command Control or replace operational safety procedures.
Where protected copies are required, agree the OSS storage scope separately. OSS is not automatically included in this Plan or Blueprint. Recovery copies still need validation and tested restoration procedures; storing evidence does not itself establish compliance.
Explore Offline Secure StorageQuestions
What security and risk teams ask first
Over dedicated management Ethernet, cellular SMS or an authenticated API. The command path never touches the production network, so the command does not travel on the wires it is meant to cut.
Yes. Zones are independent: isolate one circuit, one tenant or one SCADA segment without touching the rest.
Configured action records can support risk and audit reviews. Confirm record coverage, timestamps, integrity checks, retention, SysLog delivery and failure handling for your deployment. Control can help support those obligations; it does not make you compliant on its own.
No. A path can be restored on an approved command, without a site visit, and the change is recorded like any other.

Decide what stays connected.
We will walk your estate, map it to the sector Blueprint and show you the evidence the board will be asked for.




