Resources · Use Cases

What WireTrace does, problem by problem.

22 use cases. Each one follows the same path: the challenge, what WireTrace sees, what it understands, what it decides, which integration acts, and the outcome you can verify.

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Know your devices

OT & ICS · Healthcare & IoMT · Enterprise & Campus

Passive asset inventory without touching devices

The inventory is a spreadsheet that was last right during the previous audit. Agents cannot go on controllers, clinical devices or cameras, and nobody will approve a scan of the production network.

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Enterprise & Campus · OT & ICS

Unknown and unmanaged device discovery

Devices appear on the network that nobody registered: a contractor's laptop, a new camera, a forgotten test server, a rogue access point.

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OT & ICS · Critical Infrastructure

Vendor, model and firmware identification

Vulnerability work stalls because nobody knows which firmware each controller and network device runs.

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OT asset inventory and Purdue mapping

The Purdue diagram on the wall does not match the plant, and nobody can prove which level each device sits on.

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Healthcare & IoMT

Medical device (IoMT) inventory

Biomedical engineering, IT and security each hold a different list of clinical devices, and none of them is complete.

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See what matters

OT & ICS · Enterprise & Campus · Critical Infrastructure

Vulnerability prioritisation with exploitation context

The vulnerability list is thousands long, and patch windows in OT are measured in months.

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Critical Infrastructure · OT & ICS

Air-gapped threat and vulnerability intelligence

Isolated networks get the weakest threat intelligence, because nothing inside them may connect out.

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Healthcare & IoMT · Enterprise & Campus · OT & ICS

Ransomware exposure reduction and early detection

Ransomware spreads through the weaknesses everyone knows about but nobody can list: clear-text credentials, exposed shares, unpatched systems.

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Enterprise & Campus · Healthcare & IoMT

End-of-life technology discovery

Unsupported operating systems and products sit on the network long after anyone stopped tracking them.

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Enterprise & Campus · OT & ICS

Clear-text credentials and weak cryptography

Legacy protocols still send passwords in the clear, and expired certificates hide in plain sight.

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Detect and investigate

OT & ICS · Critical Infrastructure

OT command monitoring

A write to a controller looks like any other packet to a firewall. Operators need to know when someone changes the process, not just that two devices talked.

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Industrial protocol behaviour anomalies

Attacks on control systems often use legitimate protocols in unusual ways that no signature describes.

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Enterprise & Campus · OT & ICS

Threat detection and SOC triage with ATT&CK mapping

Analysts get alerts about addresses, not devices, and spend the first half hour working out what the device is.

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Enterprise & Campus · OT & ICS

Investigation from alert to evidence

Incident response depends on evidence that was never recorded or is spread across five tools.

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Enterprise & Campus · Critical Infrastructure

Asset context for the SIEM and SOC

The SIEM has logs from everything except the devices that cannot log: controllers, clinical devices, cameras.

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OT & ICS · Critical Infrastructure · Enterprise & Campus

Remote-access and third-party access detection

Vendors and contractors connect into control and clinical networks through paths that nobody approved or remembers.

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Change detection after shutdown or maintenance

After a shutdown or vendor visit, nobody can say exactly what changed on the network.

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Act with control

OT & ICS · Enterprise & Campus

Dependency mapping before change or segmentation

A firewall change or migration is planned, and nobody knows which systems depend on the path being changed.

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OT & ICS · Critical Infrastructure

Compliance evidence for IEC 62443, NERC CIP and NCA OTCC

Audit evidence is interviews and screenshots that describe what was intended, not what happened.

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Phased micro-segmentation: protect a PLC cell

Segmenting a production cell is overdue, but a wrong rule stops the line.

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Enterprise & Campus · Healthcare & IoMT

NAC enrichment with device identity and risk

The NAC sees a MAC address and a switch port, and too many devices fall into a generic profile.

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Enterprise & Campus · OT & ICS

Firewall policy enrichment

Firewall rules accumulate for years because nobody can prove which ones are still needed.

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