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Critical OT Infrastructure Protection

SCADAfence enables critical infrastructure providers to stay secure against growing modern cyber threats by providing a critical infrastructure cybersecurity platform.
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Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Challenges

Critical infrastructure and utilities are heavily depended on their critical assets in operational environments to run reliably. Thus the cyber security infrastructure needs to be at the highest level.
  • Loss of availability can lead to safety hazards and endanger human life
  • The ability to separate between critical operations and IT is no longer practical
  • OT environments are adopting advanced technologies, therefore they are more interconnected and complex
  • Malware is increasingly accessing OT environments leveraging the end of the “air gap” era
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Critical infrastructure foundation is built on industrial control systems such as SCADA systems and other OT systems. Modern operational networks are constantly evolving due to developments, such as; Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Industry 4.0, smart grid and others. With the increase in complexity, comes increased risk. Cyber-attacks against OT networks in critical infrastructure can lead to devastating outcomes, with critical operational downtime being the prime target. New cyber-threats against operational networks in critical infrastructure are forcing operators to change their approach and strategy regarding OT security. Since connectivity and adoption of IIoT devices is inevitable due to business requirements, operators must start planning how they can remain secure while increasing connectivity instead of depending on outdated approaches such as air-gapping between IT and OT. This will allow them to protect themselves from attacks trying to disrupt their operations.

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Addressing the security needs of Critical Infrastructure

SCADAfence offers critical infrastructure providers with the tools required to run reliable, safe, and secure operations while increasing productivity and cutting costs:
  • Zero downtime implementation and non-intrusive monitoring
  • Continuous real time threat detection and anomaly
  • Vulnerability assessment and risk management
  • Full compliance with industrial frameworks such as NERC-CIP, IEC-62443, NIST, ISO-27001 and more
  • Visibility into all OT & IoT network traffic and digitized asset inventory
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Critical infrastructure such as utilities are considered to be prime targets for targeted attacks. Famous incidents, such as the attack against the Ukraine power grid in 2015 and 2016, and the rise of recent attacks on critical infrastructure due to COVID-19, show how adversaries can leverage the connected IT/OT environments to cause disruption. By continuously monitoring the activities in the internal OT networks, critical infrastructure networks can detect threats early in the kill chain. Early detection enables proactive actions that mitigate the potential threat before critical assets are endangered. In the past, operators could trust good network segmentation, isolation or air-gapping as an effective security measure. But due to the increasing connectivity and remote access, this is no longer possible. The adoption of new advanced technologies creates a more dynamic OT environment and requires better control over the assets, devices, and equipment running within the network. The SCADAfence Platform’s digitalized mapping and full visibility do just this, with no prior knowledge required and automatically obtained based on non-intrusive monitoring of the network.

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