STIGNING

Case Study

Industrial Telemetry Security Hardening

Anonymized engagement for an industrial diagnostics network with constrained device fleets and strict communication integrity requirements.

01

Context

A distributed telemetry platform managing field devices across regulated environments needed stronger communication integrity and faster containment during device trust incidents.

02

Technical risk

  • Session rekey failures produced intermittent command-channel disruption.
  • Device trust-state drift reduced confidence in fleet command integrity.
  • Incident containment required lengthy manual correlation across environments.

03

Intervention

  • Redesigned device identity and authenticated transport sequencing for constrained endpoints.
  • Introduced key rotation controls and trust-state verification checkpoints.
  • Implemented observability and runbook improvements for targeted containment and recovery.

04

Measured result

  • Fleet communication stability improved under routine and degraded operating conditions.
  • Trust-state validation became measurable and auditable across deployment tiers.
  • Operational response teams reduced containment time for device-side incidents.
MetricBeforeAfterChange
Session rekey failure rate2.8%0.2%-92.9%
Command latency p952.4 s0.9 s-62.5%
Incident containment time6 h55 min-84.7%
Signed artifact coverage48%99%+51 pp

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