Industries

Electric Utilities

 

 

Assuring Uptime of the Bulk Electric System

To assure constant and reliable availability of electricity, utilities rely on Industrial Defender to protect real-time power generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure from cyber intrusions, exploits and internal inadvertent activities that may disrupt the performance, reliability, and availability of these operational networks and systems.

Industrial Defender’s critical infrastructure security and management solutions provide in-depth protection, visibility and enhanced management capability for utility operations networks.

Our deep experience in control systems and breadth of security knowledge enables us to deliver utility-specific solutions that enable owners and operators to monitor and secure their critical assets and meet NERC CIP compliance requirements.

Integrated Security Technologies & Cost-effective Process Automation Solutions

Industrial Defender emphasizes two solutions areas aligned to key industry challenges. Defense-in-Depth™ is an integrated set of products and services providing multiple layers of threat mitigation, customized for control systems environments. Compliance Sustainability provides security process automation and information tools that simplify and reduce the cost of security management, including analytical and reporting tools for security forensics and compliance audit support.

Compliance Sustainability

Compliance Sustainability equates to "high security, low impact," meaning maintaining a high security posture over time, with minimal impact on both the control systems being secured and the organizations responsible for system management. Industrial Defender's solutions for Compliance Sustainability enable control system managers to cost-effectively implement and sustain best practices that assure system security, availability and compliance to corporate and industry security standards.

Defense-in-Depth™

A basic principal of a comprehensive cyber security plan is Defense-in-Depth. Defense-in-Depth presumes that no single mode of security mitigation is impenetrable or sufficient, and that a security solution must be compromised of several layers of mitigation technology that address prevention, detection, and response to various attack types.

Industrial Defender's Defense-in-Depth approach includes three major solution categories:

Intrusion Prevention Intrusion Prevention is essentially "keeping the bad stuff out" and is implemented at both the network perimeter via a Unified Threat Management platform (UTM/Firewall) , and within servers and end-point devices via a Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS). Access Management Access Management means allowing the "good players" in through the perimeter and into end point systems, with screening granularity down to the application and roles level - and only after rigorous authentication and authorization. Monitoring & Response Monitoring and response provides unified situational awareness across the systems environment, integrating intrusion detection, performance monitoring and event management from all protected systems, end point devices, perimeter/firewall platforms and network infrastructure.