IDIAL
Industrial Digital Identity for Automated Lifecycle. Zero-touch certificate and identity automation for OT environments — secure machine identities without local agents.
Growing demands for industrial companies
As industrial companies drive digital transformation, their OT ecosystem grows increasingly complex and interconnected. From smart manufacturing and automated production lines to industrial IoT sensors and edge-computing devices, organizations manage an ever-growing network of connected industrial assets.
Every component in this sophisticated operational landscape needs a unique, verifiable identity to ensure secure and trustworthy interactions.
Digital certificates form the foundation for managing machine identities in industrial environments, enabling trusted authentication across systems and assets. But inadequate certificate-management processes and a lack of visibility create serious vulnerabilities — from unexpected production outages to security gaps when compromised certificates go undetected in industrial control systems.
The challenge of monitoring and securing these machine identities grows ever more urgent as industrial infrastructures become more connected.
Automation for a better future
IDIAL is a containerized identity-automation solution built specifically for industrial environments. It enables secure communication with OT assets — such as PLCs and process components — and automates the issuance, renewal and distribution of certificates, entirely without local agents.
Through OPC UA GDS Push and integration with REST-based CMDBs and asset repositories, IDIAL ensures that every connected asset always holds a valid, verifiable identity.
State changes are detected and processed automatically — no manual intervention, minimal downtime.
This frees your staff from routine tasks like manual certificate requests, creating room for value-adding work.
Leave behind the effort of manually managing certificates in OT environments — and focus on what truly matters: your business.
Why teams choose IDIAL
Zero-footprint automationCertificate automation for OT networks with no software on endpoints.
Container-based deploymentSecure, scalable rollouts across industrial environments.
End-to-end identity assuranceFor PLCs, controllers, gateways and field devices.
Automatic detectionAsset changes trigger automatic enrollment and renewal.
Seamless PKI integrationFits enterprise-wide PKI and identity processes.
Less operational effortFewer outages caused by expired certificates.
Built for industrial identity workflows
Secure machine-to-machine communication (OPC UA)
Automatic certificate provisioning and trust synchronization for authenticated, encrypted OPC UA sessions — without manual intervention.
Certificate automation for PLCs and controllers
Automated issuance, renewal and revocation of certificates for PLCs and controllers via standard protocols such as SCEP and EST.
Certificate-based root of trust for edge & IIoT nodes
Assigns unique device identities for secure communication and authentication across distributed nodes.
Asset-inventory-driven lifecycle control
Binds certificate management to asset systems to ensure real-time updates and continuous trust.
Touchless cloud certificate management (Azure IoT, AWS IoT)
Automated certificate management in cloud-IoT environments — policy-driven and hybrid-capable.
Technical capabilities
No software installation required on endpoints
OPC UA GDS Push for distributed certificate management
Containerized runtime (e.g. Docker / Kubernetes) for isolated, scalable deployment
Integration with REST-based CMDBs and asset repositories
Enrollment, renewal and revocation without local agents on devices
Secure connection to PLCs and OT endpoints via standard protocols
OCSP-based certificate validation with low load on endpoints and network
Automatic detection of new or changed assets triggers certificate operations
Automatic reconfiguration after certificate issuance in microservice architectures
Policy-driven configuration aligned with enterprise PKI and security standards
Modern and legacy crypto algorithms (e.g. RSA, ECC) for broad compatibility
Certificate validation via trust anchors, explicit or implicit
Designed for industrial realities
A foundation for Zero Trust
Effective identity management is the foundation for Zero Trust in OT environments. IDIAL provides verifiable machine identities across PLCs, controllers, gateways and edge systems — so every interaction is authenticated and authorized. By automating the entire certificate lifecycle and connecting to existing PKI and asset sources, IDIAL closes visibility gaps, reduces manual effort and supports compliance as well as stable operations.
Customizable on demand
Industrial operations follow strict, process-driven requirements — from safety-critical PLC networks and deterministic control loops to tightly scheduled maintenance windows and segmented infrastructures. IDIAL offers fine-grained, policy-based control and scripting that let security teams and engineers define exactly when and how certificate operations run. Custom renewal intervals, condition-based triggers and actions coordinated with maintenance schedules keep updates seamless and secure.
Smooth certificate activation
IDIAL's ability to trigger post-enrollment actions streamlines operations — automatically pushing certificates to target PLCs or activating them during scheduled downtime. This reduces manual effort, lowers operating costs and enables a precise rollout that matches operational needs.
Experience zero-touch identity automation with IDIAL.
Contact us for a demo, technical details or a quote tailored to your OT environment.