Oilsprings Air
Flat OT network. No segmentation. Full exposure.
Oilsprings Air is a pure OT-focused industrial lab that simulates a flat, air-gapped control network.
Oilsprings Air represents a simplified industrial control system with no DMZ or external IT integration, closely resembling legacy or poorly segmented OT environments. The lab contains a modified OpenPLC, SCADA, Engineering Workstation, Pentest Fury, Network Swiftness IDS and Tidal Collector, all connected through a basic router.
Users can program PLC logic, observe SCADA interactions, capture and analyze OT traffic, practice protocol-aware attacks and see how logs and network events are generated in real time.
Oilsprings Air is designed to teach core ICS concepts such as protocol behavior, asset visibility, baseline traffic patterns and why lack of segmentation increases risk.
Before the pipelines came, there was silence. The Oilsprings field was discovered in a dry basin far from any city grid — a place where radio signals faded and supply trucks arrived twice a week. The engineers who built this station had one directive: keep it running. No cloud. No IT integration. No redundancy layers.
They wired the PLC directly to the pump actuators and ran a single cable to the SCADA panel in the control shed. The network was flat by design — flat by necessity. Every device on the same segment, every packet visible to every node.
Decades later, this architecture is still running. Nobody has changed it because nobody has needed to. The pumps work. The pressure holds. The logs go nowhere because nobody reads them.
This is Oilsprings Air. Not a training scenario. A photograph of what OT looks like when security was never part of the plan.