Article • July 5, 2026 • 5 minute read

WWT Industry Solution Experience (WISE)

WWT's Demonstration lab for industrial IT/OT collaboration

The challenge industrials can't solve alone

Across manufacturing, utilities, energy, oil and gas, healthcare and all critical infrastructure environments, organizations are racing to digitize operations. Yet most are held back by aging IT-OT infrastructure, strained relationships between IT and OT teams, and no safe place to test converged solutions before betting production on them.

The technologies and partners are evolving fast, adoption requires confidence in both the risks and the business value as Companies simply have no environment in which to test, integrate and pressure-test multi-vendor solutions under real-world conditions.

What the WISE is

The WWT Industry Solution Experience (WISE) changes that. Housed in WWT's technology campus and part of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC), WISE is a demonstration facility where industrial organizations test and validate technology solutions against real-world OT environments before committing to production.

Business leaders, engineers and partners work through scenarios together, connecting strategy directly to evidence. For business leaders who do not see their operations reflected in a traditional data center environment, WISE extends the ATC into the industrial world.

What you can do in the WISE

WISE gives organizations a practical environment for working through real industrial scenarios. They can validate modernization, cybersecurity and operational solutions risk-free without ever touching live production. They can run proofs of concept, interoperability and observe how IT and OT systems respond to network changes and simulated cyberattacks. The result is evidence-based transformation, where decisions are guided by validated outcomes instead of assumptions.

Bridging IT and OT

WISE is more than a lab. It bridges the cultural and technical divide between IT and OT, dismantling silos through guided sessions that build shared understanding of architecture, security and operational dependencies. Demonstrations tailored cyber-event simulations and future-ready OT Security models that integrate automation, AI and analytics give teams a blueprint for future-ready industrial operations.

WISE use-cases

IT/OT Convergence Blind Spots

As IT and OT networks converge, attackers exploit the gap between teams. Most organizations lack unified visibility across both domains, leaving critical assets exposed to lateral movement.

Legacy System Vulnerabilities

PLCs, SCADA systems, and HMIs running decades-old firmware cannot be patched without halting production. Security was never part of their design — and attackers know it.

Limited Asset Visibility

You cannot protect what you cannot see. Most OT environments have thousands of unmanaged endpoints with no inventory, no behavior baseline, and no anomaly detection in place.

Regulatory & Compliance Pressure

Compliance frameworks are multiplying faster than teams can implement them. Demonstrating compliance without operational disruption is a persistent challenge.

Third-Party & Supply Chain Risk

Vendors, integrators, and remote support tools create access pathways that are rarely monitored. A single compromised supplier can become an entry point into your plant floor.

Organizational Silos

OT and IT teams operate with different priorities, tooling, and risk tolerance. Without shared governance, security gaps persist and accountability falls through the cracks.

Always improving

Backed by executive sponsors, a cross-industry steering committee, and field advisors, WISE continues to scale with purpose. WWT is expanding customer-driven use cases, strengthening OT Security adoption, deepening OEM partner integrations and improving demonstration capabilities based on real production challenges. Strong governance, operational discipline and increased field and marketing engagement help ensure WISE keeps pace with growing demand.

Built for the people who own the industrial risk

The WISE directly addresses the distinct pressures facing two critical roles. Both share ultimate accountability for OT Security outcomes — but face different daily realities, metrics and stakeholder demands.

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Translating OT risk into board-level financial exposure
Extending enterprise security governance into OT without disrupting operations
Managing cyber insurance requirements tied to OT posture
Demonstrating measurable risk reduction year over year
Building a unified security program across IT and OT domains
Responding to regulatory inquiries and audit findings efficiently

OT/ICS Security Director

Gaining visibility into assets that have never been inventoried
Protecting legacy systems that cannot be patched or replaced
Securing remote access for vendors and maintenance personnel
Implementing network segmentation without halting production
Building detection capabilities for OT-specific threat actors
Developing and testing OT-specific incident response playbooks

The bottom line

WISE gives industrial organizations a safe place to validate strategy, test solutions before production, and build the alignment needed for lasting transformation. It turns modernization from a high-risk leap into a guided, evidence-based journey.

Engage WWT to experience WISE firsthand and explore how it can support your industrial modernization goals

To learn more about WWT's OT Security capabilities, visit the WWT OT Security overview. Visit the page here.

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