Copia Automation has joined the Operational Technology Cybersecurity Coalition (OTCC), a group of leading cybersecurity companies working alongside industry and government to strengthen the security and resilience of the nation’s critical infrastructure. We joined because we believe the OT security conversation needs to include recovery.
The True Test of Resilience
Much of the work in OT security focuses on protecting systems from threats: gaining visibility into every asset, segmenting networks, detecting intrusions, and addressing vulnerabilities. That work is essential, and many of our fellow OTCC members are leaders in it. Recovery is a natural complement to those efforts. Recent incidents affecting water and wastewater systems in several states are a reminder of how important it is for operators to have every layer of resilience in place, including the ability to restore operations quickly when the unexpected happens.
And not every disruption comes from a cyberattack. An undocumented logic change, a failed update, or a replaced controller with no current program to load can stop a line or take a treatment process offline just as easily.
When that happens, the people running the plant aren’t thinking about threat models. They’re thinking, “How fast can we get back up and running safely?” Helping them answer that question with confidence is why Copia exists.
Closing the Recovery Gap
At Copia, we help industrial organizations close the recovery gap: the time between a disruption and a full return to normal operations. In too many facilities, the only copy of critical PLC logic lives on the device itself or on one engineer’s laptop. Backups are often outdated, untested, or incomplete, and teams find out during an emergency that they aren’t restoring at all. They’re rebuilding from scratch.
Our platform changes that. We provide automated, versioned, and verified backups of controller code, along with version control built for the plant floor: full change history, drift detection, and a trusted last known-good state that operators can roll back to at any time. The result is recovery measured in minutes or hours rather than weeks.
A Shared Mission
We joined the OTCC because we believe securing critical infrastructure is something we can accomplish together. When companies across the OT community share what they know, the entire industry gets stronger, and so do the operators who rely on us. Every lesson learned, every best practice shared, and every standard shaped as a group helps a water utility, a power provider, or a manufacturer somewhere be a little more prepared. That kind of progress is only possible when we work side by side, and we’re encouraged to see so many organizations in this space choosing to do exactly that.
The full picture includes recovery. We see it every day: operators know they need reliable, restorable backups, but they often lack the budget and staff time to put them in place and keep them current. As requirements and funding for OT security take shape, we want to see recovery named explicitly, with clear expectations for tested, offline-capable backups and practiced recovery time objectives. Those are concrete goals operators can fund, implement, and demonstrate.
The OTCC’s priorities make it the right home for this work. Its focus on interoperability matters because recovery has to work across mixed-vendor environments. Its emphasis on vendor-neutral cybersecurity characteristics gives us a way to define recovery readiness in terms anyone can understand and measure. And its commitment to bringing industry expertise to public policy and federal funding discussions gives us a direct way to advocate for the lean teams running America’s plants, utilities, and treatment facilities.
Looking Ahead
Detection tells you something is wrong. Recovery gets you back. We believe the strongest OT security strategies include both, and we’re excited to bring a recovery-first perspective to the coalition. We look forward to working with our fellow members and government partners to make sure that when disruption comes, the nation’s critical infrastructure is ready to bounce back.
