Purdue Level 3.5 · Break-and-Inspect

Nothing crosses the boundary
until SILDA decides.

Every OT session is fully terminated at the DMZ and re-originated only if it's clean. Agile per-asset AI scores it, a cryptographic ledger records it, and, if it's a threat, the plant keeps running while SILDA isolates the problem.

NIST 800-82 R3 IEC 62443 SL-2 MITRE ATT&CK ICS v14 No appliance · No SaaS
Live mediation ledger, illustrative feed SHA-256 + Ed25519 chained

Simulated for demonstration, mirrors the real anomalies.jsonl schema written by every SILDA node.



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Downtime cost modeled, Energy sector
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Dashboard modules, one operator view
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MITRE ATT&CK ICS techniques mapped live
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Appliances, SaaS fees, or cloud dependencies required
How it sits on the network, Purdue Model Level 3.5

The one level built specifically to sit between OT and IT.

The Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture (ISA-95) splits an industrial network into six levels, Level 0 physical process up through Level 5 enterprise IT. Level 3.5, the Industrial DMZ, is where a break-and-inspect authority belongs: the one segment with a legitimate reason to see both zones. That's exactly where SILDA sits.

PURDUE ENTERPRISE REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE ISA-95 / IEC 62443 ZONE MODEL • SILDA AT LEVEL 3.5 IT / ENTERPRISE ZONE OT / INDUSTRIAL ZONE L5 Enterprise Network Corporate IT · Internet · Cloud services L4 Site Business Logistics ERP · Business planning · IT services 3.5 Industrial DMZ SILDA Mediation Authority Break-and-Inspect • sole path between OT and IT TERMINATE ANALYSE RE-ORIGINATE SHA-256 + Ed25519 ledger • agile per-asset AI L3 Site Operations MES · Plant historian · Site SCADA server L2 Area Supervisory Control HMI · Local SCADA · Eng. workstation L1 Basic Control PLC · RTU · DCS controller L0 Physical Process Sensors · Actuators · Field instruments
  • 01Inline Proxy, OT devices route through SILDA:8080, full break-and-inspect on every session.
  • 02Reverse Proxy, the MES server calls SILDA instead of the cloud directly. One URL changes.
  • 03Passive TAP, SPAN/mirror port copy for monitor-only rollouts before you flip on enforcement.

One box, two NICs, and the only device with access to both zones. It's the sole path between them, so it's the only place a break-and-inspect decision can actually be enforced, not a claim, a consequence of where it physically sits.

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The mediation lifecycle

Six stages, every single session, no exceptions.

01

Received

Session hits SILDA:8080 and is fully terminated.

02

Validated

Source checked against the OT registry, WAF rules fire.

03

Authorized

AI scores the event against its per-asset model.

04

Staged

Clean sessions are prepared for re-origination.

05

Delivered

A new sanitized session reaches the backend.

06

Confirmed

Entry appended to the SHA-256 chained ledger.

What makes SILDA different

Six things no competitor ships together.

Passive monitors tell you something happened. SILDA decides, blocks, proves it cryptographically, and puts a dollar figure on what it just saved you.

Agile per-asset AI

river.HalfSpaceTrees scores every event in real time. One model instance per OT device, a PLC's 10 KB is normal, an HMI's 10 KB isn't.

Cryptographic forensic chain

Every entry SHA-256 linked to the one before it, Ed25519 signed. Tampering with any record breaks the chain and is instantly detectable.

Financial ROI per event

Every blocked event is priced against your sector's real downtime cost, avoided loss minus mitigation cost, logged and exportable.

Privacy-preserving federation

Multiple sites improve detection together via differentially-private FedAvg. Raw traffic and IPs never leave the site, only DP-noised statistics.

Agentic investigation

On every high-confidence block, a 7-tool agent perceives, plans, replans, and produces a severity-scored report, entirely on-prem, no data egress.

Self-installing package

Compiled binaries for six platforms. One command, or one double-click, starts everything and opens the browser, no Docker required.


Where SILDA sits

Passive visibility is table stakes. Enforcement isn't.

Most of the OT security field is built to watch and report. SILDA is built to decide, it blocks inline, proves the decision cryptographically, and ships as self-installing software, not an appliance or a SaaS subscription.

See the full market position →
CapabilityTypical OT security platformSILDA
Real-time enforcement / blockingPartialYes
Financial ROI per blocked eventNoYes
SHA-256 + Ed25519 forensic chainNoYes
Privacy-preserving federated learningNoYes
Requires vendor appliance or SaaSYesNo
“SILDA is the only platform in its category that simultaneously delivers Break-and-Inspect mediation, agile per-asset AI, a cryptographic forensic chain, financial ROI per event, and privacy-preserving federation, as self-installing software, with no appliance and no subscription lock-in required.” SILDA v2.0 market position summary
Ready when you are

See SILDA mediate real OT-style traffic in under ten minutes.