Automation needs for chemical companies are unique and can be as diverse as applying real-time optimization to a furnace or configuring batch recipes on a reactor. As chemical manufacturers continue to embrace technology to lower their cost structure and improve efficiency, it is important to understand the need to identify and mitigate cyber security risk. Chemical companies are facing increased scrutiny from government agencies such as the US Department of Homeland Security to ensure that their mission critical assets have been identified and a plan to secure these assets has been created.
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Security Challenge:
Incidence of cyber-attack/intrusion, whether intentional or accidental, has increased dramatically over the past several years. Preserving the integrity of the global chemical industry is essential to mitigate risks associated with Business Continuity, Public Safety, National Security and the National/Global Economy.
Chemical companies strive to achieve "Real-time Business Intelligence" as a competitive advantage. Corporate IT infrastructure, Business Applications and Real-time operation systems (SCADA and Process Control Systems) are converging. Accompanying the convergence of this infrastructure is increased threat of cyber-incidences within the SCADA and Process Control environments.
The SCADA and Process Control Security challenge must be evaluated based upon whether the objective is to secure existing legacy installations or future new system installations. With the rapid industrial expansion in the 1980's & 1990's many of the existing legacy installations were not designed with security in mind. Driven by the desire for interoperability and real-time business intelligence these legacy installations have become much more integrated with corporate IT networks and the business application layers.
Preserving the high availability and reliability of these mission critical system installations is essential. Careful consideration should be given to the legacy nature of the environment (low network bandwidth, slower computer processing power, mission critical applications, etc) when selecting your security partner. Traditional corporate IT approaches to securing SCADA and Process Control environments run the risk of adversely impacting system availability and reliability, as they were not designed to operate in this constrained, mission critical environment.
Industrial Defender Offer to the Chemical Industry:
By leveraging our 17 years of real-time process control and SCADA industry experience, Industrial Defender has designed a security offering from the SCADA/Process control environment up versus the enterprise environment down. We are the only company with a complete "Risk Prevention Lifecycle" solution exclusively for the critical infrastructure industries of power, water, oil & gas, transportation and chemicals. Our offer includes Risk Assessment Services, Risk Mitigation Technology and Risk Management Co-Managed Security Services.
Industrial Defender Risk Assessment Services
Industrial Defender Security Consultants provide a full range of risk assessment projects. The team has performed over 60 unique process control and SCADA system security assessment engagements, far more than any other company specific to the SCADA/Process Control real-time environments. We have helped companies in the chemical industry assess their network architecture and then provide detailed plans to ensure compliance with specific industry regulations such as the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Cyber Security Standards CIP 002 through 009.
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Industrial Defender's Risk Mitigation
Industrial Defender technology portfolio offers the industry's first and only comprehensive and fully integrated"Defense in Depth" cyber-risk mitigation technology platform designed specifically to monitor and protect both new and legacy process control and SCADA systems. Our products are specifically designed for the real-time environment to ensure they passively monitor and protect without impacting the availability and reliability of the control system and network.
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Industrial Defender Risk Management
Industrial Defender Co-managed Security Services is the final piece of the "Risk Prevention Lifecycle" solution. Our security analysts remotely monitor and manage over 150 process control networks across 21-countries. We leverage our joint experience in process control/SCADA and network security to diagnose and rectify any potential security threat to your control networks. We have the only 24x7x365 security operations center (SOC) that specifically monitors the security and performance of process control/SCADA networks, providing you the peace of mind that your systems of protected from existing and emerging cyber security threats.
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