Many Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) operators and regulated enterprises struggle with legacy OT systems, fragmented IT and OT security, limited cyber skills, rising regulatory demands, and increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. These challenges create operational vulnerability, increase the risk of downtime and compliance failures, and make resilience difficult to maintain. Sword protects essential operations and eliminates high-impact risks by acting as the strategic bridge between legacy Operational Technology (OT) and modern Information Technology (IT), backed by 24/7/365 UK-anchored cyber defence.
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Build your operational resilience and defend your organisation
When critical systems lack visibility, legacy OT cannot securely integrate with modern IT, and cyber threats continue to increase in sophistication, organisations face heightened operational, regulatory, and commercial risk. Sword helps organisations overcome these challenges by protecting essential operations, strengthening cyber resilience, and eliminating high-impact risks across Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) and regulated enterprise environments.
Build a unified cyber defence service for your business through a clear strategy, security across endpoints, identities, platform, and infrastructure, all backed by a 24/7/365 integrated managed cyber defence service.
- Robust cyber defence strategy
- Real-time threat detection
- Rapid disruption response & recovery
- Scalable risk management & regulatory compliance
- Drive OT and Enterprise IT resilience maturity
Our OT Cyber Resilience framework helps you to navigate complex regulatory requirements, stay ahead of increasing compliance demands, and proactively protect your critical and legacy systems.
- Improved cyber posture
- Immediate insights from fully-monitored systems
- Risk management and regulatory control effectiveness
- Organisational compliance
- Operational continuity
- OT threat resilience
Powered by Splunk, our observability solutions and services build a clear model for your business operations and customer interactions. Complex data becomes simplified for each audience, resilience risk is surfaced and mitigated more rapidly, regulatory compliance is continuously assessed, and core security automation helps you stay ahead of threats.
- Continuous automated compliance and robust audit evidence
- Fraud and financial irregularity detection
- Proactive and preventitive maintenance
- Insight dashboards that overlay data into operations
- Security and resilience control analysis
Business Outcomes
Operational Continuity
Regulatory Confidence
Resilient Operations
Case Study
Continuous Cyber Defence
Context
A leading North Sea energy operator sought to strengthen cyber resilience across their critical infrastructure and complex multi-vendor IT environments. They needed to implement continuous oversight, faster threat response, supplier alignment and support for evolving UK critical national infrastructure compliance and audit requirements.
Solution
Sword delivered a 24/7 managed cyber defence service, integrating SIEM monitoring, automated detection, analyst-led triage, threat hunting, incident response and compliance reporting within a shared governance model connecting internal security teams, external IT providers and technology partners.
Outcome
The client gained continuous threat visibility, faster investigation and containment, clearer escalation routes, improved supplier coordination and scalable compliance capability. Shared governance reduced remediation delays, strengthened operational resilience and enabled proactive protection of critical energy systems as requirements evolve.
Leadership Spotlight
Rob Mossop
Chief Operating Officer
Rob Mossop is Chief Operating Officer at Sword, helping organisations improve operational resilience and navigate change in increasingly complex environments. Working closely with customers across complex and regulated industries, he supports organisations in aligning people, processes and technology to manage risk, strengthen resilience and achieve their strategic objectives.
More Information
We strengthen OT security without introducing additional operational risk. Using passive monitoring and non-intrusive assessment methods, we help organisations gain visibility of industrial environments, identify vulnerabilities, and improve resilience without disrupting critical operations, production systems, or safety controls.
Sword maintains a deep roster of security-cleared technical architects, cyber analysts, and network engineers operating inside secure UK facilities to guarantee data sovereignty.
Yes. We regularly support legacy OT environments where patching is not practical or permitted. Using network segmentation, virtual patching, secure remote access, and continuous monitoring, we help isolate and protect critical systems without modifying underlying hardware or disrupting operations.
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Whether you are strengthening operational resilience, securing critical infrastructure, or improving organisational preparedness, our UK-based experts are ready to support your mission-critical operations