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On-site Edge AI for industrial operations

Know when the process is failing.Know when it is under attack.

Vardar connects OT network activity to its impact on the physical process, so Operations and Security can tell quickly whether an incident is operational, cyber, or both. One on-site Edge AI system, one evidence-backed decision.

  • Faster triage
  • Fewer false positives
  • One shared answer

Raw OT data and the learned site model stay inside the customer environment.

Illustrative scenarioSITE-04 / LINE-03
Network pathAbnormal evidenceWrite to PLC-07 outside the learned sequence.
Process pathNominalNo deviation yet.
ClassificationUnder investigationTwo paths must agree before anything is called cyber.
Illustrative scenario. Agreement across both paths is suspected cyber activity, not a verified incident.
What the words mean
Abnormal evidence

One path deviates from the learned model. Under investigation, not an alarm.

Suspected cyber activity

Network and process evidence agree and point at manipulation. Classified Cyber, with the next check named.

Verified incident

A person has confirmed the evidence. Vardar never declares this on its own.

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ON-SITECustomer-controlled edge hardware

02

AIR-GAP READYNo cloud dependency for site operation

03

READ-ONLY STARTSPAN / TAP and approved evidence

04

LOCAL DATARaw plant data remains inside the site

1.0How the decision is made

From two alert queues
to one defensible decision.

Vardar compares two independent evidence paths. Agreement raises confidence. A single path remains under investigation instead of becoming another confirmed cyber alert.

1.0Step 01 of 4

Separate signals

Security sees commands and alerts. Operations sees equipment and process data. Neither view says whether the plant is at risk.

  • SOC: a write to PLC-07, no process context
  • Control room: pressure drift on PT-22, no network context
  • Two queues, two tools, one event
2.0Step 02 of 4

Evidence comparison

Vardar reads both paths against the learned site model. Agreement raises confidence; a single abnormal path stays under investigation.

  • Network: write outside the learned sequence
  • Process: command without a consistent response
  • Both abnormal, so the event is corroborated
3.0Step 03 of 4

Shared decision

One classification for both teams: Operational, Cyber, Mixed or Unknown, with the evidence and the next check attached.

  • Cyber suspected, not a verified incident
  • Next check: operator identity and physical valve state
  • Response ships closed; a person approves anything that acts
4.0Step 04 of 4

Local deployment

Everything that decides anything runs on one appliance inside the site boundary. Mirrored traffic and read-only process data in, findings out, nothing raw leaves.

  • Passive SPAN or TAP, never in the path
  • Air-gap ready, signed updates by approved media
  • Raw OT data and the site model stay on site
2.0How it deploys

Passive, on-premise,
inside your boundary.

A dedicated local appliance observes OT traffic and process data without issuing control commands. It learns how this site behaves and keeps that model on the premises.

1

Mirror traffic

A passive SPAN or TAP connection. Nothing is in the path.

2

Map the environment

Assets, zones and process context, learned from what the site already does.

3

Detect the physics

Anomalies in network behaviour and process signals, checked against each other.

4

Guided response

A plain-English why and a recommended next check, inside the customer boundary.

Passive collectionNo control commandsAir-gapped from cloud and ITA personalised model for every site.
01
Observe

Evidence and explanation

Start here
02
Recommend

Customer-defined playbooks

03
Approve

Human or workflow gate

04
Execute

Scoped integrations when enabled

3.0Evidence before promises

Two evaluations.
Each labelled for what it is.

Neither is a customer site. Commissioning results are measured per site, on that site.

Public testbed: SWaT 2015

Public academic water-treatment testbed (iTrust, SUTD). Labelled attacks against a live physical process.

32 / 36
labelled attacks detected
99.1%
precision
0.55%
holdout false-positive rate
85.5%
point-adjusted recall
Run 2026-06-11, commit 97752838vardar-portal/src/data/gallery/swat-gallery.json

Two-channel synthetic evaluation

Repository-generated Modbus/TCP traffic with synchronised simulated separator values. No customer data.

96.17%
classification accuracy
0.69%
false-positive rate
96.23%
precision
95%
holdout gate, minimum
Commit b4eab079, CI run 35477541192vardar-sentinel/evaluation/two-channel-v2

For the physical world

The product film: the decision, the two evidence paths, the appliance and the boundary.

Product walkthrough

A finding from first alert to governed next step, in the console.

4.0What changes for your teams

Focus on the alerts
that matter.

01
See what others miss

Detect physical process changes that network-based tools cannot see.

02
Reduce noise

Fewer false positives, because a single evidence path stays under investigation.

03
Increase confidence

Flag cyber incidents with a much higher likelihood of representing real threats.

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One case for both teams

Security and Operations work the same evidence instead of two alert queues.

5.0Regulatory evidence

Evidence your auditors
can follow.

Vardar produces the on-site monitoring, classification and evidence trail that these frameworks ask operators to show.

NERC CIP-015

Internal network security monitoring for bulk electric systems

EPA AWIA

Risk and resilience assessment for water systems

TSA security directives

Pipeline cybersecurity monitoring and reporting

EU NIS2

Incident detection and reporting for essential services

IEC 62443

Zone and conduit monitoring for industrial automation

6.0Technical evaluation

Start with one process
that matters.

Bring three to five questions your Operations and Security teams currently answer in separate tools. We will map the evidence, success criteria and governance to a scoped evaluation.

  • One critical process
  • Shared OT and security questions
  • Success criteria agreed in advance

Prove it on one site before you scale it.

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