ManufacturingSOC: Tackling Security Challenges in Industry
With the growth of Internet-connected field technologies, industrial organizations today face an unprecedented challenge in ensuring resilience from both a cybersecurity and operational perspective.
These increasingly insidious challenges are fueled by the rapid growth of Internet-connected field technologies. Digital transformation has supported the formation of a vast cyber-physical network, encompassing a variety of devices, from traditional OT assets in industrial environments to "smart" lighting and HVAC systems, to Internet-connected vending machines within facilities.
The Complexities of the Cyber-Physical Network in Industry 4.0
The extensive connectivity of these field technologies offers numerous advantages, but at the same time introduces new and complex security challenges. The vastness of the cyber-physical network creates an expanded attack surface, jeopardizing operational availability, integrity, and security in industrial environments.
Innovative Solutions for Industrial Security
Tackling these challenges requires innovative and specialized solutions. Our industrial security platform, ManufacturingSOC, is designed to provide:
- Complete Visibility: Map and monitor every device connected to the network to ensure complete visibility of assets.
- Vulnerability Management: Identify and mitigate vulnerabilities through ongoing assessment and security recommendations.
- Advanced Protection: Implement advanced security controls based on approaches like the "Zero Trust" principle.
- Threat Detection: Optimize threat detection through advanced integrations and behavioral analysis.
Our Response to Security in Industry 4.0
We can help your organization tackle the security challenges of Industry 4.0. Contact us to find out how we can customize our solutions to your specific needs and ensure cybersecurity and operational resilience in your industrial context. Join us in shaping a safer and more resilient industrial future.
Key Features and Capabilities of ManufacturingSOC: Security at the Service of Industry 4.0
- Extending IT security controls to OT environments
- Complete visibility into previously invisible networks
- Constant detection of anomalies, known threats, and zero-day attacks
- Attribution of a risk level to all alerts and analysis of their origin
- Threat intelligence with real-time updates from the Cloud
- Customizable reports and dashboards
- Seamless integration with IT security infrastructure
Asset Discovery with ManufacturingSOC: The Foundation of Industrial Security in Industry 4.0
Effective industrial cybersecurity requires a deep understanding of the assets to be protected, making a complete inventory of XIoT assets the foundation of security. ManufacturingSOC offers a comprehensive and advanced approach to asset discovery in the context of Industry 4.0.
Advanced Methods:
Passive Monitoring: Through continuous monitoring of network traffic, ManufacturingSOC identifies and enriches asset details and communication profiles. This approach provides real-time visibility without disrupting normal operations.
Asset Management
in the OT Environment
With extensive support for industrial protocols and advanced analytical capabilities, ManufacturingSOC offers complete visibility and precise controls over all industrial assets in the OT environment. Its key features include:
Asset Visibility: Comprehensive identification of all assets in OT networks, including serial ones, with detailed information such as model number and firmware version.
Network Visibility: Interpretation of information related to network sessions, including duration, actions performed, and changes made, providing a detailed understanding of network activity.
Process Visibility: Monitoring OT operations down to the code level in some cases, detecting deviations from processes and major changes.
Threat and Anomaly Detection: Utilizing five detection engines to automatically profile assets, communications, and processes in the OT network, identifying known threats and zero-day vulnerabilities.
Anomaly Detection
Using powerful detection engines, ManufacturingSOC can automatically profile assets, communications, and processes in the OT network. The Continuous Threat Detection feature establishes a behavioral baseline of legitimate traffic, eliminating false positives and alerting users in real-time for every anomaly and threat. This sophisticated approach ensures effective protection against both known and zero-day threats.
OT-Specific Threat Intelligence: ManufacturingSOC includes OT-specific threat intelligence capabilities, updated in real-time via Cloud to ensure rapid detection of malware and related threats.
Contextualized Risk Level Alerts: The risk level assigned to alerts is based on the specific context in which the alerts are triggered, allowing users to easily filter false positives, quickly assess the importance of the alerts, and prioritize them for evaluation and risk mitigation.
Vulnerability Management
ManufacturingSOC automatically scans every asset in the OT environment against information contained in a vast database of insecure protocols and configurations, vulnerabilities identified by ManufacturingSOC, and CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) vulnerabilities present in the U.S. National Vulnerability Database. This allows users to identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities in OT environments more efficiently. Highlights include:
Exact Vulnerability Matching: Complete visibility into the OT environment, which includes detailed information on each asset, allows MCTD to accurately and effectively identify vulnerabilities present in the OT network.
Attack Vector Mapping: This feature identifies and analyzes all vulnerabilities and risks present in the OT environment and automatically calculates the most likely attack scenarios. It also suggests corrective measures for each scenario.
Risk-Based Prioritization: All vulnerabilities are automatically assessed, and each is assigned a score based on the unique risk it represents for each OT environment.
