RX-OS is built by Sator Tech, a Belgian cybersecurity company from Aalst. No venture capital. No compromises. Pure engineering focused on one mission: cognitive security for critical infrastructure.
RX-OS started with a simple observation: the tools available for OT security were designed for IT environments and retrofitted for industrial networks. They generated noise without understanding. Alerts without context. Dashboards without intelligence.
We believed critical infrastructure deserved something fundamentally different. Not another SIEM with an OT plugin. Not another IDS that flags every Modbus write as suspicious. A cognitive system that actually understands what it is looking at.
So we built one. From scratch. In Belgium. With no external funding and no shortcuts. 49 microservices. 114,942 lines of code. Two patent applications. And a conviction that the operators who keep our water running and our hospitals functioning deserve security tools that think as carefully as they do.
Designed, engineered, and built entirely in Belgium. Subject to Belgian and EU data protection laws. No foreign intelligence obligations. No backdoors. Your data stays in your network and under your jurisdiction.
Ricardo founded Sator Tech with the conviction that critical infrastructure operators deserve security tools that understand their environment — not generic IT solutions repackaged with industrial protocol labels.
His background spans systems engineering, kernel-level programming, and industrial network architecture. The six-pillar cognitive architecture of RX-OS reflects years of direct experience with the limitations of existing OT security approaches.
Your OT data belongs to you. It should never leave your premises, traverse a cloud, or be processed by third parties. RX-OS runs entirely on-premise with zero cloud dependency. This is not a feature — it is an architectural principle.
Alerts without context are noise. RX-OS does not just flag deviations — it builds causal explanations. Every escalated anomaly comes with a reasoning trace that explains what happened and why it matters.
Hash-chained evidence is not a marketing feature — it is a legal necessity. When regulators audit and management is liable, you need cryptographic proof of your security posture. We built that into the core.
We will never ask you to install agents on PLCs, modify SCADA configurations, or add software to your operational workstations. RX-OS is passive. Period. No exceptions.
We are not optimizing for a funding round or an exit. We are optimizing for the security of the infrastructure that matters. Bootstrapped means we answer to our customers, not to investors.
RX-OS is not a wrapper around open-source tools. The cognitive architecture, the hash-chained evidence system, and the multi-agent consensus engine are original work. Two patents are pending.
Initial research into cognitive architectures for OT security. First prototypes of the causal reasoning engine and hash-chained evidence store.
The six-pillar cognitive architecture is formalized. eBPF/XDP packet capture achieves wire-speed performance on compact hardware. First patent application filed.
RX-OS deployed in pilot programs with Belgian critical infrastructure operators. 30+ protocol parsers operational. Second patent application filed. NIS2 compliance mapping completed.
49 microservices, 114,942 lines of code. Edge appliance hardened for production deployment. Water and healthcare sector specializations complete.
Whether you are exploring OT visibility for the first time or preparing for a NIS2 audit, we are happy to discuss your specific situation.
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