Stealth No More: Indurex Aims to Unravel the Chaos in Industrial Cybersecurity

It’s a scene all too familiar for security teams in the trenches of critical infrastructure: blinking red alerts, a cacophony of alarms, and a sense that somewhere, something vital might be slipping through the cracks. This week, a new player emerged from the shadows with a bold promise to cut through the noise. Indurex, a Netherlands-based cybersecurity startup, has officially left stealth mode, unveiling an AI-powered platform designed to bridge the long-standing security gap in the interconnected world of cyber-physical systems.

The stakes have never been higher for industrial environments - think power grids, manufacturing plants, and data centers - where a single overlooked alert can spell disaster. Until now, many defenders have relied on a patchwork of fragmented tools, each providing a partial view of the threat landscape. Indurex’s founders, Jalal Bouhdada and Maarten Oosterink, believe their platform can break the cycle of “alert fatigue” and blind spots.

Bouhdada is no stranger to the industrial security domain. After founding Applied Risk, later acquired by DNV, he brings a resume steeped in operational technology (OT) protection. With Indurex, he’s betting on the power of artificial intelligence and data integration to change the game. The platform taps into a wide range of sources: from industrial historians and asset management systems to alarm management consoles and OT networks. By correlating these streams, Indurex claims it can provide a single, actionable operational view - merging cyber, process, and safety intelligence.

“For utilities, energy operators, and data centres, Indurex replaces fragmented tools and noisy alerts with a unified, AI-powered view,” Bouhdada told SecurityWeek. The system’s adaptive risk scoring engine is designed to sift through mountains of telemetry, surfacing the most urgent threats and enabling faster, more informed responses. Integration with third-party OT security solutions means Indurex isn’t asking customers to rip out existing investments, but rather to amplify their effectiveness.

The timing is critical. Recent high-profile breaches - like the Sandworm attack on Poland’s power grid - underscore the vulnerability of industrial systems and the real-world consequences of cyber-physical attacks. Indurex, still lean and bootstrapped, is actively courting investors in hopes of scaling its solution before the next big outage hits the headlines.

As the lines between digital and physical risk blur, Indurex’s debut is a reminder: the future of infrastructure security depends not just on more data, but on making sense of it. Whether Indurex can live up to its promise remains to be seen, but the industry will be watching - and hoping - for a little less chaos, and a lot more clarity.

WIKICROOK

• Cyber: Cyber refers to the digital world of computers, networks, and online systems, especially focusing on security, threats, and digital resilience.
• Operational Technology (OT): Operational Technology (OT) includes computer systems that control industrial equipment and processes, often making them more vulnerable than traditional IT systems.
• Industrial Historian: An industrial historian collects and stores time-series data from industrial systems, enabling analysis, monitoring, and optimization of operational processes.
• Adaptive Risk Scoring: Adaptive risk scoring automates threat assessment using real-time data and evolving risk factors, allowing organizations to respond proactively to cybersecurity threats.
• Alert Fatigue: Alert fatigue is when security teams become overwhelmed by excessive alerts, making it difficult to recognize and respond to real cybersecurity threats.