PAM for IT, OT, and the segments where they touch.
Manufacturing privileged access spans two worlds: corporate IT estates with familiar Windows/Linux/Cloud patterns, and OT/ICS estates with legacy controllers, brittle protocols, and vendor agents you cannot install. DataDike was built to bridge them — agentless on the OT side, full session proxy across the Purdue Model, and audit evidence that maps to IEC 62443 and NIST 800-82.
IEC 62443
OT/ICS aligned controls
Agentless
No software on the controllers
Purdue 0-5
All zones covered
Air-gap
Deployment supported
Why PAM matters here
Why manufacturing PAM is structurally different
OT and ICS environments contain devices that were never designed for modern security controls — PLCs running firmware from 2008, HMI workstations on Windows XP Embedded, SCADA historians whose vendor refuses to certify a third-party agent. The PAM solutions designed for corporate IT do not survive contact with this reality. DataDike's agentless, protocol-native session proxy approach was specifically engineered for environments where you cannot install anything on the target. The session is intermediated at the gateway; the controller never sees an agent, a probe, or a heartbeat it does not recognize.
The Purdue Model is your operating diagram, not just a slide
Privileged access in a properly segmented industrial estate flows through demilitarized zones, jump hosts, and one-way diodes. DataDike sits exactly where the privileged session traffic must already terminate — at the Level 3.5 DMZ — and pushes session controls down into Levels 2 and 1 without breaking the segmentation. The same appliance handles your engineering workstations, your vendor remote-access workflows, and your batch-server admin paths.
How DataDike maps to the work
Agentless to PLCs, HMIs, and SCADA
Native session proxy for the protocols industrial estates actually use: RDP, SSH, VNC, Telnet, and the vendor-specific consoles for major PLC families. No software on the controller — required for vendor certification posture in regulated process industries.
Vendor remote access — third parties, time-bound
OEM field engineers (Siemens, Rockwell, ABB, Honeywell, Yokogawa) need privileged access for diagnostics and updates. DataDike's vendor workflow gives them time-bound, recorded, MFA-protected access — no VPN credentials they keep forever, no shared admin accounts.
Engineering workstation governance
EWS estates are the gateway to the plant floor. Full session recording (Studio 5000, TIA Portal, Unity Pro, ControlBuilder), credential rotation for engineering accounts, and JIT elevation for change windows.
OT historian and DCS access
Direct database session proxy for historians (PI, Wonderware, Aspen InfoPlus) and DCS configuration consoles. Audit trail at the SQL layer, not just the OS layer.
Air-gap and DMZ deployment
Customer-hosted appliance, no cloud control plane required. Designed for the segmentation realities of OT estates that cannot reach the public internet.
IEC 62443 evidence pack
Pre-mapped reports for IEC 62443-3-3 (system security requirements) and -4-2 (component requirements). Auditor walkthrough format, not a spreadsheet.
Regulatory frameworks covered
IEC 62443
Industrial automation security
NIST 800-82
US ICS security guidance
NERC CIP
North American power grid
TSA Pipeline SD
US pipeline cyber rules
ISO 27001
Information security management
SOC 2
Service organization controls
LGPD
Brazilian data protection
EU NIS2
Critical infrastructure directive
Customer evidence
Global manufacturing group locks down 3rd-party OT access — without breaking maintenance windows
A Fortune 500 manufacturer with 40+ production plants replaced ad-hoc vendor VPN access with DataDike-mediated, recorded, time-bounded sessions. Vendor footprint cut, audit clean.
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We will walk through your Purdue segmentation, your vendor-access reality, and your OT audit requirements — and tell you honestly whether DataDike fits before either of us spends a quarter on a POC.
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