Built for Security-Sensitive Industrial Environments
Industrial infrastructure data is among the most operationally sensitive information within many organizations. Facilities such as tank terminals, gas infrastructure, chemical plants, utilities and energy assets often operate under strict security, compliance and operational continuity requirements. As industrial digitalization accelerates, infrastructure visibility must therefore be achieved without compromising data security and operational control.
Virtual Plant® is designed with this reality in mind, providing flexible deployment models that can adapt to different operational, cybersecurity and IT/OT governance requirements.
Flexible Deployment Models
Virtual Plant® can be deployed through public cloud, private cloud, hybrid or customer-managed environments depending on the operational needs and security policies of the organization.
For organizations seeking scalable and rapidly deployable infrastructure intelligence environments, public cloud deployment remains the default and most accessible option. At the same time, many industrial operators require stricter control over infrastructure data, especially in critical infrastructure sectors and OT-sensitive environments.
To support these requirements, Virtual Plant® also offers:
- Private cloud deployments
- Hybrid architectures
- Customer-specific hosting approaches
- Dedicated infrastructure environments
- Flexible regional hosting options
Different cloud and infrastructure providers can be supported depending on customer preferences, regional requirements and internal IT strategies.
Designed for OT-Sensitive Operations
Unlike traditional enterprise software environments, industrial infrastructure platforms often need to operate around sensitive operational technologies, legacy systems and critical infrastructure environments. Virtual Plant® is therefore designed to support industrial IT/OT realities rather than only conventional enterprise IT structures.
Security and operational accessibility are balanced carefully to ensure infrastructure intelligence can remain usable while respecting industrial cybersecurity expectations.
Security & Validation Approach
Virtual Plant® follows a security-oriented infrastructure management approach aligned with modern enterprise expectations for industrial digital environments. Security considerations are integrated throughout platform deployment, data handling and infrastructure management processes.
The company’s ISO 27001 alignment process is ongoing as part of its long-term information security framework development. In addition, penetration testing activities can be performed and shared with customers to support security validation and infrastructure confidence requirements.
Depending on customer requirements, security-related activities may include:
- Penetration testing
- Infrastructure vulnerability assessments
- Access management controls
- Environment isolation approaches
- Secure authentication mechanisms
- Controlled infrastructure access policies
Practical Infrastructure Intelligence Without Heavy Complexity
Many industrial organizations struggle to balance infrastructure visibility with cybersecurity and deployment concerns. Virtual Plant® addresses this challenge by providing flexible and practical deployment architectures rather than enforcing a single rigid infrastructure model.
This enables organizations to adopt brownfield infrastructure intelligence in a way that aligns with their own operational maturity, security expectations and digitalization strategies while maintaining control over sensitive industrial infrastructure information.