# Operations & security
This section covers uptime, safe degradation, monitoring, and security boundaries.
Use it to evaluate operational risk in production OT environments.
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### Summary
Inspection stays up even during network and cloud failures.
Non-critical capabilities degrade gracefully without silent failure.
Security assumes strict OT segmentation and minimal trust boundaries.
### Next steps
* [Reliability & degradation](/doc/intelfactor-ai/operations-and-security/reliability-and-degradation.md)
* [Monitoring](/doc/intelfactor-ai/operations-and-security/monitoring.md)
* [Security model](/doc/intelfactor-ai/operations-and-security/security-model.md)
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