How It Works · OT Inventory, Risk, Compliance
Most environments have gaps no one knows about. ConsoleWorks is the mechanism that finds them — and closes them.
ConsoleWorks builds a unified, continuously updated asset inventory — from your existing security tools, from direct device collection, or from both — then applies binary measurement logic against every asset, aggregates Pass/Fail results through the SCF control hierarchy, and surfaces gaps ranked by organizational impact. Whether ConsoleWorks is one tool in your stack or your primary security platform — IT, OT, or both — the mechanism is the same. Here's exactly how.
Tool Data Collectors ingest asset data
Mapping Rules build the unified inventory
Inventory meets your controls framework
Rollup Scores aggregate through SCF hierarchy
Eliminate directs remediation. Enforce keeps it closed.
How do you operate OT cybersecurity as a continuous evidence cycle — discovering assets, measuring controls, remediating gaps, and producing audit-ready compliance evidence — across NERC CIP, NIST 800-82, and IEC 62443?
ConsoleWorks runs an unbroken evidence cycle across every OT asset: collect from existing tools, map against your compliance framework, score every control, surface the gaps, remediate, and re-measure on the next cycle. This is how compliance posture moves from a quarterly snapshot to a continuous, defensible record.
Every asset. One inventory.
However your data arrives.
The Asset Inventory is built from whatever data sources your environment has — existing security tools, active device collection, imported spreadsheets, or all of the above. If you have discovery tools, vulnerability scanners, or a CMDB, Tool Data Collectors (TDCs) connect via API and pull structured asset metadata automatically. If ConsoleWorks is your primary platform, Active Collection retrieves asset data directly from managed devices. Either way, the inventory is unified, continuously updated, and reflects operational reality — not tool artifacts.
Collect
Map
Inventory
Every asset. Every question.
Pass or Fail.
Inventory tells you what exists. Measurement tells you whether what exists is in the right state. ConsoleWorks is the only platform that lets you define what "right state" means — mapped to your controls framework — and then measures every asset against it, continuously. The result isn't just operationally useful. It's auditable.
The Intelligent Measurement Engine
Each measurement is a configurable question evaluated against the unified inventory — checking asset sub-components like software, patches, antivirus, users, and ports — and returning Pass or Fail. No subjectivity. No manual review.
The engine behind
Intelligent Operations.
Most platforms alert. ConsoleWorks measures. The Intelligent Measurement Engine runs security, compliance, and operational queries against your managed inventory — automatically generating the scores that feed everything else on the platform.
Intelligent Measurement Engine
Queries run continuously against every asset — asking every security, compliance, and operational question your controls framework requires. Each returns a binary answer: Pass or Fail.
feed scoring engine
Risk Analysis & Intelligence
Pass/fail results from the Query Layer feed the scoring engine, rolling up through your compliance hierarchy. Weights can be applied at any level — ensuring every score from measurement to fleet reflects your organization's actual priorities.
From binary results to
organizational risk posture.
Most platforms give you a risk score based on their algorithm. ConsoleWorks gives you a risk score based on yours. You define the asset groups that mirror your organization — site, region, market, fleet, or any structure that reflects how you actually operate. You define the weightings that reflect your priorities — a critical substation's gap carries more weight than a back-office server's. ConsoleWorks then calculates and aggregates continuously, rolling measurement results up through sub-controls, controls, domains, and your full organizational hierarchy. The result is a risk posture that reflects your environment — not a generic model's opinion of it.
One framework to rule them all.
ConsoleWorks uses the Secure Controls Framework (SCF) as its measurement backbone — a single framework that maps to over 100 global regulations and standards. You configure your controls once. ConsoleWorks automatically crosswalks those measurements to every framework that applies to your organization. Switch between frameworks in the diagram — the same underlying measurements, scored through the lens of each regulation.
Learn about the Secure Controls FrameworkFrom measurement to fleet
Measurement results roll up automatically through the SCF hierarchy — sub-control, control, domain — and simultaneously through your asset group structure. Levels update continuously. No manual aggregation. No scheduled reports.
Failed measurements.
Specific assets.
Every score traces to a specific asset. Every failed measurement shows you exactly which device failed and why. The Fix button appears for devices ConsoleWorks actively manages — assets with a live SRA connection. For those, remediation starts here.
Scores are only as useful as the assets behind them.
Every score traces back to a specific asset record in the inventory — not an estimate, not a sample. A 41% on AV definitions means exactly three devices failed that measurement, and you're looking at them. The Fix button appears for devices ConsoleWorks actively manages — assets reachable through an SRA connection. For those devices, the path from gap to remediation is a single click.
Gaps closed. Evidence generated.
Audit-ready.
Most compliance programs treat audit evidence as something you collect before an audit. ConsoleWorks generates it as a byproduct of how the platform operates — tied to every measurement, every remediation, and every session. Your next audit starts the moment you deploy.
One measurement. Every framework. Simultaneously.
Every Measurement Question is mapped to one or more SCF sub-controls. Because SCF is a meta-framework that crosswalks to hundreds of regulations, a single Pass/Fail result simultaneously satisfies controls across NERC CIP, NIST 800-53, IEC 62443, TSA Pipeline Directives, HIPAA, SOX, and PCI-DSS — automatically. You configure the measurement once. ConsoleWorks reports it everywhere.
The result is a compliance posture that is always current — not a snapshot taken at audit time. When an auditor asks for evidence of CIP-007 R3 compliance, you don't assemble it. You report.
Configure once. Report everywhere.
A single measurement satisfies controls across every framework simultaneously — mapped through SCF automatically.
What gets produced on every cycle.
Every session, every measurement, every remediation produces evidence automatically — stored, timestamped, and traceable to the source data.
Your auditor asks. You report.
Audit preparation used to mean weeks of pulling logs, cross-referencing spreadsheets, and hoping nothing was missed. ConsoleWorks generates evidence continuously — from every measurement cycle, every session, every remediation action.
When a NERC CIP auditor asks for CIP-007 R3 evidence for the last 12 months, you don't assemble it. You select the date range and report. The evidence is already there — tied to specific assets, specific measurements, and specific sessions.
And because it's generated from live measurement data — not manually entered — it's traceable all the way back to the source. Every score has a measurement behind it. Every measurement has an asset behind it. Every asset has a record behind it.
Risk.
Expose is more than discovery. It's a structured picture — every asset collected, every configuration measured, every gap scored across Security, Compliance, and Operational dimensions. A risk isn't exposed until it's visible, measured, and ranked. ConsoleWorks does all three, continuously.
- Unified inventory built from existing tools, direct collection, or both — no rip and replace required
- Measurement Questions evaluate every asset against your controls framework
- Risk scored across Security, Compliance, and Operational dimensions simultaneously
- Gaps ranked by organizational impact — asset through fleet
- Every finding tied to a specific asset, a specific measurement, a specific score
Verify It.
A failed measurement identifies exactly what's wrong and which asset. ConsoleWorks puts you on that device through a protocol-native, agentless session — crossing every network zone to reach any IT or OT asset. You fix it. The measurement re-runs. Pass closes the gap. Fail keeps you on the asset.
- Failed measurement identifies the asset, the issue, and the impact — no hunting required
- SRA opens a protocol-native session to the device — multi-zone traversal reaches any IT or OT device, including PLCs, RTUs, protective relays, servers, and network infrastructure
- Fix applied on the asset — configuration corrected, patch applied, service restarted
- Measurement re-runs automatically — Pass closes the gap, Fail keeps you working
- Score updates the moment the measurement flips — no manual reporting required
Closed.
Most platforms score what's reporting and move on. ConsoleWorks enforces continuously — measurements re-run automatically, deviations surface the moment they occur, and evidence maps to your controls framework without manual assembly. Your audit posture is current at all times.
- Measurements re-run against remediated assets immediately — not on a schedule
- Rollup scores updated across all affected levels automatically
- Audit evidence auto-generated and mapped to SCF controls and selected frameworks
- Trend indicators show whether posture is improving, stable, or declining at every level
- Every new asset evaluated against controls the moment it appears in inventory
From unknown risk
to verified compliance.
The problems your security, operations, and compliance teams face each map to a specific ConsoleWorks capability — and each capability produces evidence.
ConsoleWorks, answered.
Direct answers to the questions OT security teams, integrators, and AI assistants ask most often.
ConsoleWorks Tool Data Collectors ingest from existing OT and IT sources — your CMDB, scanners, historians, network management tools — and Mapping Rules normalize that data into a unified inventory. The result is one asset record per device, regardless of how many tools touched it.
A Rollup Score aggregates measurement results up the SCF (Security Controls Framework) hierarchy — from individual control checks, to control families, to overall posture. Operators see one number that reflects current compliance and security state, with the underlying evidence one click away.
Eliminate directs remediation to the specific failing measurement on the specific asset, with the playbook and forensic record attached. Enforce keeps that remediation in place by re-measuring on every cycle — so a fix doesn’t quietly drift back to broken.
Most ConsoleWorks deployments produce inventory and baseline measurement within the first cycle (days to weeks, depending on scope and access). Existing data sources accelerate this; air-gapped or segmented zones are normal and supported.
See the cycle run
in your environment.
Your assets. Your tools. Your framework. See ConsoleWorks against your actual environment — IT, OT, or both.