ICS and OT
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The challenge
Your organization faces escalating threats to its industrial control systems and operational technology, risking physical failures and operational disruptions. Traditional IT security measures are inadequate for the unique performance, safety, and reliability demands of OT environments. Without specialized ICS/OT security, your critical infrastructure remains vulnerable, potentially leading to significant financial losses, reputational damage, and regulatory penalties. Securing your OT environment is paramount to maintaining operational integrity and ensuring business continuity.
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95%
of critical infrastructure incidents involve human error
24 Days
mean time to recover from ransomware attacks
$2M
average cost of an OT security incident
The solution
ICS and OT addresses your unique challenges through modern solutions and key capabilities.
Passive asset discovery
Identifies all devices on the network by passively monitoring traffic, avoiding active scans that can disrupt fragile legacy systems.
Deep packet inspection (DPI)
Decodes industrial protocols to understand the specific commands being sent, enabling detection of malicious instructions.
Risk-based vulnerability management
Prioritizes vulnerabilities based on their operational criticality, focusing on the threats that are actually exploitable in an industrial context.
Behavioral anomaly detection
Uses AI to baseline normal plant operations and detect subtle deviations that could indicate a cyberattack or mechanical failure.
OT-specific threat intelligence
Provides threat hunts and playbooks tailored to industrial attack scenarios, based on research from dedicated industrial threat labs.
Secure Remote access (SRA)
Provides vendors with time-boxed access to specific machines, recorded via video for auditing, instead of broad VPN connections.
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How to evaluate ICS and OT
1
Deployment flexibility
Evaluate whether the solution can run entirely on-premises for air-gapped sites or if it requires a cloud connection.
2
Total cost of ownership (TCO)
Account for the hidden costs of hardware sensors and professional services required to tune the AI to your specific plant environment.
3
Integration with existing ecosystems
Ensure the tool seamlessly feeds alerts into your existing SIEM and ticketing systems for collaborative IT and OT workflows.
4
Vendor roadmap and stability
Verify the vendor's financial longevity and commitment to supporting legacy protocols indefinitely, given the long lifespan of industrial assets.
Questions to ask suppliers
Use these questions during supplier evaluations to ensure you're choosing the right partner for your needs.
ICS and OT RFP guide- Can you prove your ability to decode Level 1 and Level 0 traffic for our specific brand of PLCs without active polling?
- What is your documented process for handling false positives in an industrial environment?
- Do you have a dedicated industrial threat research team, and can you provide an example of a proprietary threat signature?
- How does your solution integrate with our existing IT security stack while maintaining strict network segmentation for the plant?