Product

Comprehensive OT protection across compliance, integrity and security

A single software platform to help you eliminate downtime, improve safety and achieve compliance, bringing greater visibility, reliability and reassurance across your critical operations.

Asset Guardian

A robust management system providing at-a-glance updates and visibility of all activity. Asset Guardian’s structured, auditable and comprehensive approach to managing your operational technology minimises both the likelihood and impact of system failure.

  • Compliance with industry standards, guidelines and regulations

  • Monitors access attempts, data changed and retrievals

  • Rapid disaster recovery

  • Straightforward configuration change management: link user accounts with your company’s Active Directory

Secure central repository

Full revision control protects your latest software versions against corruption, eliminating the risk of losing important revisions and disrupted operations.

Comprehensive change management

Full change logs with workflow and notifications allows for auditable history and collaboration, preventing inconsistent tracking and compliance issues.

Fault and event logging

Central fault logging with workflow for tracing faults enables root cause analysis and maintains a knowledge base, avoiding prolonged downtime from unresolved issues.

Hardware and obsolescence management

Manages hardware inventory linked to assets and controls obsolescence, ensuring rebuilds and stock control, preventing failures from outdated components.

System password management

Centrally stores system passwords with full access control, providing secure management and preventing unauthorised access and security breaches.

Advanced reporting and exporting

Custom report configuration and data export allow for detailed analysis and information sharing, avoiding missed opportunities for improvement.

What Asset Guardian clients are saying

Where others maintain, we fortify

We thrive on taking charge of your OT. Offering software, support and training, we help you improve safety, ensure compliance and eliminate downtime in a single, centralised platform.

The result? Seamless continuity across all your critical assets.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • General
  • Configuration
  • Emailing
  • Networking
  • Security
  • What’s included in an Asset Guardian concurrent license?

    In addition to the Asset Guardian server license, MS SQL Server 2008 Express is included.

    If you want to use a different database server - such as MS SQL Server Standard or above, Oracle or other -  licenses for these are not included and must be purchased separately.

  • What is the recommended standard server configuration?

    Network:

    • 100+ Mbit symmetric
    • Unlimited traffic/month

    Security:

    • Daily backups
    • Optional SSL Certificate (128bit) - only if https is required
    • Virus Scanning

    Database:

    • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (or newer)

    Other:

    • Java Runtime Environment 1.6+ (aka Java 6)
    • Depending on the size of files which will be stored, the total hard disk capacity can vary from 500GB (for storage of files mainly <50MB) to 1+TB (for storage of files mainly >50MB) for period of, at least, 10 years.
  • Does Asset Guardian work with Lotus Notes Email?

    Asset Guardian does not automatically import email from Lotus Notes as it does for Outlook. However, it is possible. Users simply export their email as text files and log these files in Asset Guardian as Correspondence. The records created will reflect the preview of the email, just as it does for Outlook email.

  • How is data protected and what mechanisms are in place to prevent malicious or accidental access to this data?

    Asset Guardian provides two types of security:

    Hardware security: 

    Its architecture makes it possible to host data under a highly restricted network, while the application server is open to insecure networks, such as the Internet.

    Software security:

    The software has a full range of features in the solution that prevent intrusions. The solution code is not stored on the application server, but in the database. Any code sent to the client is compiled (i.e. unreadable). A login and password are required to access AG. Passwords are stored encrypted in the database, and never displayed decrypted.

    To prevent against brute force attacks, a feature allows a set number of login attempts before the account is locked. Communications between clients and the application server can be encrypted using the SSL protocol.

  • What are the recommended back-up processes and procedures?

    It is critical to backup all SQL databases onto the file server, and then backup the file server. This should be done every day. To save space and time, we recommend to carry out incremental backups during the week, followed by one full backup every week.

  • Secure connections (SSL): how is this achieved and what does it provide?

    Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is a cryptographic protocol that provides security for communications over networks such as the Internet. It encrypts the data sent between the clients and the server. 

    AG can combine it with a Public-Key Certificate, which essentially allows the client to check to ensure that he connects to the correct web server (AG application server) using a third-party Certificate Authority. This is called Server Authentication. Once the server authenticated, the encrypted communication can begin.

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