What is actually exposed?
Connect asset identity, observed services, reachability, and candidate paths instead of treating every inventory record as equally at risk.
From disconnected findings to an operating picture.
Security from code to critical infrastructure
Know what is exposed. Prove what matters. Control what happens next.
Breakwater connects infrastructure, application, and cryptographic evidence so security leaders can prioritize real exposure, defend findings, and govern response without replacing the tools their teams already trust.
Evidence before inference · Human authority stays explicit
The security decision gap
Your tools find signals. Your team still has to defend the decision.
Breakwater closes the gaps between inventory, findings, ownership, action, and proof without asking you to discard the controls already operating in your environment.
Which findings can we defend?
Keep source, replay, coverage, confidence, and missing context attached so teams can separate supported claims from scanner noise.
From alert volume to reviewable evidence.What can change safely?
Bind proposed actions to scope, a named owner, approval, blast radius, and rollback before consequential execution is allowed.
From automation pressure to accountable control.Did the response work?
Collect fresh evidence after change and preserve the result so closure means more than moving a ticket to done.
From activity records to verified outcomes.Breakwater ASOC
One evidence-to-action system. Three operational modules.
Breakwater ASOC is the operating architecture that connects security evidence to accountable action. Secure observes, Assure validates, and SOAR governs response while your existing controls remain in place.
Explore the architecture →YOUR EXISTING STACK
Scanners · EDR and NDR · Firewalls · SIEM · CMDB · AppSec pipelines · Identity and ticketing
Signals remain attributable to their source.01 / OBSERVE
Breakwater Secure
Establish what exists, what communicates, and what is plausibly exposed.
Connect assets, services, vulnerabilities, protocols, cryptography, reachability, and candidate attack paths.
Explore Secure ↗02 / VALIDATE
Breakwater Assure
Determine whether a finding or security claim can withstand scrutiny.
Trace exact source, replay evidence, expose coverage limits, and preserve human review.
Explore Assure ↗03 / GOVERN + VERIFY
Breakwater SOAR
Turn a validated finding into a bounded, authorized, verifiable response.
Open cases, route named approval, constrain execution, preserve rollback, and verify the result.
Explore SOAR ↗Capability availability depends on product maturity, installation, integrations, permissions, and agreed operating boundaries.
Where Breakwater fits
Keep the tools. Close the decision gaps between them.
Category-level positioning only. This is not a vendor benchmark or performance claim.
| Existing category | What it does well | Decision gap Breakwater addresses |
|---|---|---|
| Asset and vulnerability tools | Discover assets and known weaknesses | Connect findings to observed services, reachability, paths, ownership, and scope. |
| AppSec platforms | Find source and dependency issues | Preserve exact source, replay, challenge, coverage limits, and human decision state. |
| SIEM and response automation | Correlate alerts and execute playbooks | Require evidence, named authority, bounded scope, rollback, and verification before closure. |
| PQC inventory | Catalog cryptographic capability | Relate advertised support to observed behavior, dependencies, owners, and migration decisions. |
One evidence chain, start to finish
How a finding can move from observation to a verified outcome.
An illustrative ASOC operating model spanning current and planned capabilities. It is not a claim that every step is available or connected today; availability depends on product maturity, deployment scope, configuration, permissions, and available evidence.
- Environment
- Airport operations
- Starting signal
- Unmanaged IP camera
- Decision
- Isolate, then verify
- 01 / OBSERVED
An unaccounted-for camera responds.
A device missing from the current inventory appears inside an authorized discovery scope. The source, time, and scope stay attached.
- 02 / ENRICHED
Identity and exposure are correlated.
Available service and firmware signals are matched with vulnerability intelligence while confidence and coverage limits remain visible.
- 03 / VALIDATED
Reachability is tested, not assumed.
A permitted check asks whether the camera can be reached outside its intended segment and preserves the result as evidence.
- 04 / MODELED
The possible path is traced.
Analysis examines whether the exposed device could provide a route toward an operations network it was never meant to touch.
- 05 / WEIGHED
Operations add the consequence.
Asset owners connect the technical path to the systems, coverage, and continuity that could be affected.
- 06 / PROPOSED
A bounded change is prepared.
A candidate segmentation change identifies the stale rule, the intended camera boundary, and a rollback path.
- 07 / APPROVED
A person authorizes the action.
The designated owner reviews impact and rollback before any consequential production change is permitted.
- 08 / VERIFIED
The same path is tested again.
Where post-change assessment is enabled, new evidence determines whether the path closed and records what changed.
Breakwater Assure and Breakwater Secure apply the same evidence rules to different questions: is this code finding defensible, and can this cryptographic transition happen safely?
Where cyber becomes operational
Built around the systems people depend on.
Breakwater connects network and software evidence to the operating environment around it, because a finding matters differently when it affects movement, power, safety, or production.
AVIATION
Can we identify the connected systems that could interrupt passenger movement, and prove which paths are real?
Terminal cameras, access control, baggage operations, building systems, passenger networks, and airfield services create paths that cross organizational boundaries.
- Unknown and unmanaged devices
- Camera and access-control continuity
- Paths between public and operational networks
HEALTHCARE
Which connected clinical systems are exposed?
Can we validate the risk across bedside equipment, clinical networks, and supporting infrastructure without disrupting patient care?
See how Secure, Assure, and SOAR fit here →
POWER + UTILITIES
What can reach operational control systems?
Substations, remote access, field equipment, controllers, and maintenance workflows must be understood as one operating system, and every change path needs an accountable owner.
See how Secure, Assure, and SOAR fit here →
CONNECTED INDUSTRY
Which device, protocol, or supplier dependency could stop production?
PLCs, sensors, gateways, firmware, software dependencies, and network policy determine what an operator can safely trust.
See how Secure, Assure, and SOAR fit here →The same discipline reaches past the field network, into code and cryptography.
Deployment and trust boundaries
Designed to operate inside the customer’s boundary.
Where customer-controlled processing is required, placement of collection, evidence storage, and response relays is evaluated against the selected modules and environment. Each accepted design defines what stays local, what may cross an approved boundary, and who is permitted to act.
Review the architecture →
A system for defensible decisions
Evidence moves. Authority stays explicit.
Breakwater products share a disciplined operating loop designed for consequential security work.
- 01
Observe
Capture exact source, time, scope, and coverage before drawing a conclusion.
- 02
Validate
Replay, correlate, challenge, or simulate claims against independent evidence.
- 03
Decide
Prioritize by consequence and uncertainty, with assumptions visible.
- 04
Verify
Measure the result and preserve an attributable record of what changed.
Verify closes the loop: its record becomes the next assessment's Observe.
Company direction
Build a more current operating picture through recurring assessment and post-change verification.
Our roadmap expands the shared evidence model: not the authority granted to automation.
Connect the evidence
Bring asset, code, vulnerability, protocol, firmware, supply-chain, and cryptographic observations into decision-ready workspaces.
Keep it current
Expand continuous monitoring, cross-environment intelligence, durable investigations, and verification after change.
Govern the response
Advance policy-bounded agents and remediation workflows with previews, approvals, rollback, and complete audit trails.
Research and enablement
The methods behind the products, and the people prepared to challenge them.
Breakwater MCP and the Cyber Analytics course connect measurement, inference, adversarial analysis, digital twins, PQC, federated intelligence, formal verification, and governed action. They are our research and learning environment, not another operating module in ASOC.
Start a conversation
Start with one decision your current stack cannot answer cleanly.
We will define the evidence boundary, success criteria, deployment constraints, and accountable owners before proposing a broader rollout.