PhishCloud
Operational Technology Digital Forensics Services
OT-Aware Digital Forensics for Converged IT and Industrial Environments
PhishCloud Digital Forensics Services acquire, preserve, examine, and report on digital evidence across converged IT and OT environments, without compromising operational safety.
OT-Aware Evidence Acquisition
Chain-of-Custody Preservation
IT-to-OT Timeline Reconstruction
Legal, Regulatory, and Insurance-Ready Reporting
Expert Witness Support
The Problem
Findings Are Not Enough. They Have to Be Defensible.
Organizations often discover too late that critical evidence was never preserved, volatile data is gone, chain of custody started after the fact, or reports were written for the wrong audience.
In OT environments, the challenge is even greater. The wrong collection methods can compromise evidence, miss critical sources, or disrupt operations.
The result is predictable. The organization has a story, but not proof.
The Solution
OT-Aware Digital Forensics for High-Stakes Environments
PhishCloud helps you preserve what matters, reconstruct what happened, and produce findings that can be trusted by legal counsel, regulators, insurers, executives, boards, and operational leaders.
Active incidents requiring deeper investigation
Litigation support
Regulatory inquiries and cyber insurance claims
Insider, supplier, and M&A-related investigations
Board-level reporting and law enforcement referral
Not Incident Response
We Separate Them on Purpose.
Incident Response restores operations. Digital Forensics produces findings that hold up.
IR moves fast to contain threats and restore operations. Forensics moves carefully to preserve evidence, reconstruct timelines, document methodology, and support scrutiny.
We coordinate both disciplines, but we do not blur them. That distinction protects the client, the evidence, and the outcome.
Our Approach
A Structured Forensic Method Built for IT, OT, Cloud, and Industrial Operations
Forensic Readiness
We identify evidence sources, review retention policies, validate time synchronization, plan acquisition methods, and test tabletop scenarios.
Evidence Acquisition
We acquire evidence using methods appropriate to the system, including dead-box, live-response, memory capture, cloud exports, network captures, and OT platform exports.
Examination & Analysis
We examine disk, memory, network, cloud, identity, malware, and OT artifacts to determine what happened, how it happened, and what evidence supports the finding.
Timeline Reconstruction
We correlate host artifacts, network events, identity activity, cloud records, remote access, OT data, historian records, and operator actions into a single defensible timeline.
Reporting & Preservation
We produce forensic reports, executive summaries, legal and regulatory deliverables, insurance-ready documentation, IOC exports, evidence disposition records, and expert witness work product.
OT Digital Forensics Key Deliverables
Forensic Readiness
Evidence source inventory
Retention policy review
Acquisition plan by asset class
Time synchronization validation
Tool and process readiness review
Forensic tabletop scenarios
Evidence Acquisition
Acquisition plan
Chain-of-custody records
Forensic images and preserved artifacts
Hash verification records
Live-response collections and memory acquisition
Cloud, identity, SaaS, network, and OT platform exports
Historian, HMI, engineering workstation, and jump-host collection
Examination & Analysis
Disk forensic analysis
Memory forensic analysis
Network forensic analysis
Cloud and identity event reconstruction
Malware analysis where in scope
OT artifact analysis and historian timeline analysis
Operator action reconstruction and IT-to-OT pivot analysis
Timeline & Findings
Multi-source timeline reconstruction
IT-to-OT cross-correlation
Boundary-crossing activity analysis
IOC and TTP extraction
Attribution analysis where supported
Evidence limitations and confidence statements
Reporting & Preservation
Technical forensic report and executive summary
Legal, regulatory, insurance, or counterparty-ready deliverables
Timeline and IOC export
Evidence disposition record
Long-term preservation recommendations
Expert witness work product when in scope
Business Outcomes
Preserve evidence before it is lost or altered
Produce findings that withstand scrutiny
Support cyber insurance recovery with credible forensic documentation
Enable defensible regulatory and board-level reporting
Reconstruct what happened across IT and OT environments
Reduce the risk of forensic activity disrupting operations
Identify how attackers moved toward or through OT systems
Convert findings into detection, hunting, and intelligence improvements
Protect future legal, regulatory, contractual, and insurance options
Give executives confidence that conclusions are based on evidence, not assumptions
Why Customers Trust PhishCloud
Separate Disciplines
We keep forensics and incident response separate to protect the speed of response and the rigor of forensics.
OT-Aware Strategy
We know where evidence lives in industrial environments and focus on the sources that matter most.
Defensible Methodology
Evidence is acquired, hashed, verified, documented, and handled through chain-of-custody procedures from first contact to final disposition.
IT-to-OT Timeline Reconstruction
We connect cyber events to operational context across IT, identity, cloud, remote access, and OT systems.
Audience-Fit Reporting
We tailor reporting for technical teams, legal counsel, regulators, insurers, executives, and boards.
Expert Witness Support
We support matters requiring declarations, affidavits, deposition, or testimony with the analyst who performed the work.
Cyber Fusion Integration
Findings feed back into detection engineering, threat hunting, CTI, IR, and OT vCISO programs to strengthen defenses.
Who This Service Is For
Built for organizations in manufacturing, energy, utilities, oil and gas, water, transportation, pharma, and other critical infrastructure sectors.
Manufacturing
Energy & Utilities
Oil & Gas
Water
Transportation
Pharma
This Service Is Ideal If You:
Operate converged IT and OT environments
Carry cyber insurance requiring forensic findings
Face regulatory obligations or sector-specific reporting requirements
Need evidence preserved for legal or contractual reasons
Have experienced an incident where the root cause remains unclear
Need insider, supplier, or M&A-related investigation support
Want forensic readiness before the next incident occurs
When the Evidence Matters, the Method Matters.
PhishCloud helps industrial organizations preserve evidence, reconstruct timelines, and produce defensible findings without compromising operational safety.