Background
As the global energy transition accelerates, distributed energy devices and EV charging infrastructure are rapidly expanding. These environments bring together thousands of IoT, OT, and energy devices – from EV chargers, solar inverters and battery energy storage systems (BESS) to smart meters, gateways, and local controllers.
While this transformation enables decarbonization and electrification, it also introduces new challenges: fragmented asset visibility, diverse protocols, unsecure configurations, embedded vulnerabilities and increased attack surface, elevating the overall cyber risk.
To address these challenges, SaiFlow and Palo Alto Networks have partnered to integrate the SaiFlow Energy Runtime Security Platform with Palo Alto Networks OT Device Security solution.
Together, we deliver a single, contextualized view of every device across EV charging and distributed energy networks, helping operators strengthen security posture, reduce risk, and improve operational resilience.
Managing Risk Across Distributed Energy Assets
Energy networks are highly dynamic and multi-vendor, vastly exposed to the internet for remote access and management. Without centralized visibility, organizations struggle to
- Discover unmanaged or unknown devices
- Identify vulnerabilities or unsecure configurations
- Maintain compliance and enforce security policies
The result is poor security hygiene, greater exposure, and slower incident-response in case of a cyber attack.
Comprehensive Contextual Asset Intelligence at Scale
Through seamless integration, Palo Alto Networks OT Device Security solution continuously discovers all devices across energy sites, including managed, unmanaged and unknown devices.
SaiFlow then ingests and enriches this data with deep energy-specific context - including protocol insights (such as OCPP, Modbus, IEC 61850, OpenADR 2.0, IEEE 2030.5), vendor information, and risk posture.
The joint solution enables:
- Automatic and continuous IoT/OT device discovery across distributed energy networks
- Enriched asset inventory for energy-specific devices and protocols
- Continuous risk posture assessment across discovered assets
- Identify vulnerabilities and configuration issues in real-time
- Facilitate compliance and security audits with centralized asset data
Together, SaiFlow and Palo Alto Networks provide a single pane of glass for asset visibility and posture management, giving security teams confidence in protecting uptime and resilience.
Unified Energy IoT Asset Inventory
Operators and security teams lack real-time accurate visibility into the full range of devices deployed at EV charging and Distributed Energy sites, including unmanaged IoT, gateways, and energy controllers. Fragmented data and protocol diversity prevent accurate asset management and delay threat detection.
The integrated solution leverages Palo Alto Networks’ OT Device Security solution to continuously discover new or unmanaged devices across energy networks, while SaiFlow ingests this discovery data and enhances it with energy protocol context (such as OCPP version, vendor type, logical configuration data etc.).
This combined contextualized view forms a single source of truth for asset tracking and analysis, used to drive security and operational decisions.
Vulnerability and Posture Management
Many EV charging and energy IoT devices are deployed with unsecure configurations, outdated firmware, or known CVEs. Without protocol context and vulnerability analysis, these assets become weak points in the network security posture.
SaiFlow’s platform continuously evaluates each discovered energy IoT device against known vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
By correlating Palo Alto Networks network discovery with SaiFlow’s energy-specific risk assessment, the energy operator receives alerts on outdated firmware, unsecure services, or improper access control. This enables proactive remediation, improved segmentation, and reduced overall cyber exposure.
Stronger Together: The Power of Integrated Security
By combining Palo Alto Networks industry-leading OT device discovery and visibility with SaiFlow’s contextual, energy-specific cybersecurity threat detection and enriched discovery analysis, energy operators can finally achieve comprehensive visibility and posture management.
This integration empowers energy organizations to manage risk, strengthen resilience, and support a secure, reliable energy transition.