On-Prem AI Agents for Critical Infrastructure
Deploy a governed, air-gappable platform with private RAG over OT and threat-intel data, model routing, immutable audit logs & role-based access. NIS2, CER Directive, IEC 62443 & NIST CSF alignment — advisory only, never touching control systems.
The AI dilemma for critical infrastructure operators
Operators of essential services — water, transport, digital infrastructure, health, and more — face escalating threats and tightening regulation. AI can sharpen response and resilience, but only if it never weakens the boundary protecting operations.
Hard Perimeter
NIS2, the CER Directive, and IEC 62443 demand strict boundary control. Any AI tool that egresses operational data is unacceptable.
No Control-System Risk
AI must never be able to act on OT. It can advise, summarise, and analyse — but it cannot become a new attack path into control systems.
Reporting Pressure
NIS2 early-warning and incident-notification timelines are tight. Assembling the required documentation manually is slow and error-prone.
Threat & Knowledge Overload
Threat intel, logs, asset data, and response procedures pile up faster than teams can synthesise them when minutes matter.
Advisory AI that strengthens — never weakens — the boundary
Data Sovereignty
Complete Data Sovereignty
Operational data never leaves your perimeter.
Deploy VDF AI entirely on-premises — including fully air-gapped, behind your OT boundary. No external API calls. No operational data, asset records, or threat intelligence traveling to third-party servers. Everything stays exactly where your security and compliance teams require it.
"It runs air-gapped inside our environment. There is no path for our operational data to leave — that was non-negotiable."
Fully air-gap deployable
Safety & Governance
Advisory-Only by Design
Read-only. Never in the control path.
VDF AI provides the governance critical-infrastructure regulators demand:
- No Control-System Access — runs on the IT side of the OT boundary; never issues commands to SCADA or ICS
- Read-Only, Governed Data — least-privilege, zone-aware access to logs, asset, and intel data
- Complete Audit Trails — every query and response logged for incident review and supervision
- Incident Reporting Support — assemble NIS2 early-warning and notification documentation fast
- Human-in-the-Loop — people make every operational decision; AI only informs it
NIS2 · CER · IEC 62443
Cost Control
Intelligent Cost Management
Predictable economics for essential services.
Public-interest operators must justify every euro. VDF AI delivers:
- Per-Operation Cost Tracking — know exactly what each task costs across teams
- Model Routing Optimization — route routine work to small models, reserve frontier models for complex analysis
- Budget Controls — set limits by site, function, or use case
- ROI Reporting — tie AI assistance to faster response and reduced reporting effort
- 40–60% Cost Reduction — compared to traditional cloud AI approaches
vs. hosted cloud alternatives
Use cases for critical infrastructure
Threat-Intelligence Synthesis
Agents that ingest advisories and internal signals, correlate them with your assets, and produce prioritised, actionable briefings for analysts.
Incident Response Support
During an incident, surface the right procedures, summarise logs and timelines, and draft the response record — accelerating containment.
NIS2 Compliance & Reporting
Monitor obligations, draft compliance documentation, and assemble incident notifications within reporting timelines — with audit trails.
OT Documentation Q&A
Semantic search across procedures, asset records, and engineering docs so operators find the right answer in seconds — fully cited.
Resilience & Risk Analysis
Summarise risk assessments, dependencies, and continuity plans to support CER-aligned resilience planning and exercises.
Procedure & Playbook Authoring
Draft and standardise response playbooks and SOPs from existing material — reviewed and approved by your experts before use.
Technical specifications for critical infrastructure
| Requirement | VDF AI Capability |
|---|---|
| On-premise deployment | Full on-premises or fully air-gapped deployment behind the OT/IT boundary |
| Control-system isolation | Runs on the IT side of the OT boundary — advisory only, never issues commands to SCADA/ICS |
| Data sovereignty | Models, embeddings, operational & intel data remain inside your perimeter with zero external egress |
| Private RAG | Procedures, asset records, threat intel & playbooks stay on-premise inside your governed vector-store boundary |
| Role-based access | RBAC-scoped agents, tools & knowledge aligned to least-privilege and zone-based segmentation |
| Model routing | Tier-aware routing keeps routine work on smaller models — frontier models reserved for complex analysis |
| Audit logs | Immutable audit logs for prompts, retrievals, tool calls & responses — SIEM export & long-term custody |
| Integration examples | Read-only SIEM, asset management & document systems via governed MCP adapters; no OT write paths |
| Encryption | At-rest and in-transit, customer-managed keys |
| Authentication | SSO, LDAP, Active Directory, MFA |
| Uptime SLA | 99.9% (Enterprise tier) |
What changes after rollout
Questions critical-infrastructure teams ask
Is VDF.AI aligned with NIS2, the CER Directive, IEC 62443, and NIST CSF?
Yes. VDF.AI is built for operators of essential and critical services and aligns with NIS2 risk-management and incident-reporting obligations, the CER Directive's resilience expectations, IEC 62443 OT-security zoning, and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. It deploys fully on-premise — including air-gapped — so operational data, asset records, and threat intelligence never leave your perimeter, and every prompt, retrieval, and response is captured as immutable audit logs.
Will VDF.AI ever issue commands to control systems?
No. VDF.AI is strictly an advisory and knowledge layer. It runs on the enterprise/IT side of the OT boundary with governed, read-only access to data and never sends commands to SCADA, ICS, or control systems. Humans remain in the loop for every operational decision, maintaining a hard separation between AI assistance and operational control.
Can VDF.AI run fully air-gapped for critical environments?
Yes. The entire stack — models, embeddings, vector store, and orchestration — runs inside your network with zero external dependencies, suitable for segmented or fully air-gapped environments. This lets critical-infrastructure operators adopt AI without any operational data crossing to third-party cloud infrastructure.
How does VDF.AI support NIS2 incident reporting and resilience?
Agents can synthesise threat intelligence, correlate signals across logs and asset data, and assemble the documentation NIS2's early-warning and incident-notification timelines require — with full audit trails. Combined with searchable response procedures and resilience playbooks, that helps operators respond faster and demonstrate compliance to competent authorities.
Ready to deploy advisory AI behind the boundary?
Talk to our team about your resilience, OT, and NIS2 requirements.