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AI is now a NERC CIP control you have to evidence.

Tokto gives the utility or port risk and compliance officer one record that ties every prompt, every model output, and every vendor-shared AI use to an asset, a facility, and an operating state, ready for NERC, FERC, TSA, CISA, MARSEC, and the board risk committee.

What keeps you up at night

A NERC audit asks for the AI control evidence behind a CIP requirement. CISA wants to know what an AI tool touched before an incident. The board risk committee asks where AI sits relative to the OT risk appetite. The risk function has OT logs, IT logs, and a vendor register that never connect a model output to an asset and an operating state.

What you get with Tokto

How it works

Tokto turns AI on the IT/OT seam into a managed, evidenced control. Every control-room co-pilot, every field assistant, every vendor-shared model becomes a scored record at the moment of output, tied to the asset, the facility, the operating state, and the policy in force. The risk function finally has the AI layer the CIP standards assume exists.

When NERC examines a CIP control, when CISA asks what the AI did before an incident, when MARSEC asks how port manifests were governed, the answer is one query against the system of record. The CRO reports AI exposure alongside the rest of the critical-infrastructure risk register, with a control and a trail.

What goes wrong without it

On August 24, 2024, Rhysida ransomware shut down the Port of Seattle, isolating critical systems across Sea-Tac International Airport, Fishermen's Terminal, and public marinas. The Port refused a $6 million ransom; in 2025 it confirmed 90,000 individuals had their personal data taken. In March 2025 NERC issued CIP-003-9, CIP-005-7, CIP-010-4, and CIP-013-2 to harden BES Cyber Systems against ransomware and nation-state actors moving at machine speed across IT/OT seams.

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