Penetration testing is the process of discovering vulnerabilities and then flagging them for ease of attack and difficulty. Our cybersecurity specialists are well trained in the use of the same tools and systems used by malicious actors. To identify your vulnerabilities, we intentionally launch threats on your company to attempt to access computer systems, apps, networks, or other vital assets.
Rebuilding Safe and Secure Industrial Operations Networks
The risk of cyber incidents grows significantly every year
Digital transformation efforts are proliferating new attack pathways with external connections to cloud services, vendors, and remote workers. IoT devices are introducing new vulnerabilities into critical control systems as they converge. Industrial companies have become prime targets for ransomware and sophisticated attacks on critical infrastructure.
While some industrial companies have invested in OT cyber defenses, most of these were built for yesterday’s threat environment. Digital transformation and advanced attacks demand more active cybersecurity strategies that include the people, processes, and technologies to support rapid detection and response to any suspicious behavior. We also need more automated defense systems that can detect early attacks and those outside the common domains and in operating environments.
Our design and implementation guides include plant-wide focused, tested, validated, and documented reference architectures. The documents provide a foundation to help reduce risk and successfully deploy the latest technologies optimized for both OT and IT engineers.
Protecting OT Systems Now; Not Later
Applying smart defenses on converged networks is critical to OT survival
Security threats aren’t relenting. They will only continue to evolve as the industry changes its security practices or implements new defenses. Your strategies for keeping yourself secure must evolve as well.
The vastness of today’s security threats combined with not knowing how, when or where an attack will occur, can be frightening. The approaches outlined here will put you in line with the best industry practices for securing your intellectual property, while also helping you protect your critical facilities, assets, employees and competitive advantages.
Although Industry 4.0 and digital transformation are concepts that most in the industry are aware of, there is now a realization that embracing them may be the key to who survives and who doesn’t. Acceleration of digital automation and connected cloud systems, linked to IoT in plants, is essential for a business in terms of meeting environmental, social and governance (ESG) commitments and delivering profitability in the traditional business while embracing dis-ruptive, fast-moving technology and consumer shifts to sustainable products and systems.
How and Why to Bolster Cybersecurity for Smart Manufacturing
Protect your entire enterprise from new, smarter and ever-growing threats
In the era of Industry 4.0, there has been increasing adoption of smart manufacturing technologies by organizations looking to improve their manufacturing efficiency. While this has provided enhanced productivity at lower costs, it has also introduced new attack vectors that can be exploited by threat actors looking to gain a foothold in, or move laterally across, smart manufacturing facilities.
Smart manufacturing systems are designed to be isolated from the corporate network and the outside world. Nevertheless, threat actors are using new and unconventional methods to compromise systems.
The growing use of widely available technologies in industrial control systems and the growth of more connected, information-enabled enterprises inherently increases security risks, and with it the responsibilities of control system providers and users alike.
