Benefit from continuous monitoring and protection for your Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) with proactive support from a leading Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP).
Organizations are facing increasing operational risks as cyber threat actors shift focus from the Information Technology (IT) networks that run business systems to the OT networks that control industrial operations. This can lead to significant operational disruption and increased safety risks to people and the environment. Most organizations do not know where to go to find the expertise required to develop and implement cybersecurity programs for ICS.
Knowing how to manage your organization's unique cyber risk requires expertise in industrial cybersecurity and in-depth knowledge of how your operational networks and systems work.
To proactively prevent operational disruptions or unplanned downtimes that could cause an economic impact to your organization, ABS Group, an MSSP, has designed a comprehensive, single solution to manage OT cybersecurity risks, including network monitoring and management for operational technologies, networking devices and your critical ICS.
A vendor agnostic approach allows us to support all original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and control systems. Our industrial cybersecurity and risk management experts take the raw data from your systems, equipment and devices, combine it with a variety of cyber intelligence sources and turn it into relevant and actionable guidance.
These cutting-edge services, led by our team of OT and industrial cyber experts, provide an integrated, cost-effective solution, reducing the operating expenses (OPEX) associated with an in-house implementation, involving investment in technology and experienced personnel.
Cyber criminals are targeting the equipment, systems and devices you need to safely and effectively run your operations. Knowing how to manage your organization's unique cyber risk will require specialized knowledge of both IT and OT. Our team is highly skilled in understanding how to manage cyber risk – and address it as an operational safety issue – across diverse industries and market sectors.
Explore the ABS Group-sponsored research presented in our OT-ICS Cybersecurity Toolkit:
Good cybersecurity hygiene leads to preventative action. While most organizations don’t realize that they have been hacked until it’s too late, our cybersecurity managed services provide vigilant protection. Individually, the tools we provide as part of our cybersecurity managed services are powerful, protecting critical aspects of OT operations. When they are combined, they seamlessly create a complete picture to help you deter, prevent, detect and respond to attacks.
We oversee all activity 24/7/365 from our centralized ISOC with no interference to your operations. Once we install our passive monitoring equipment into your operational network, you’ll receive company-wide (or fleet-wide) coverage for your IT, OT and ICS networks and devices. Then our cyber experts take the raw data from your systems, combine it with a variety of cyber intelligence sources and turn it into active monitoring and actionable guidance.
Services for remote and onsite OT systems are available for the Marine and Offshore, Oil, Gas and Chemical, Industrial Manufacturing and Power and Energy markets.
OT used in different industries is highly specialized and has network connections that are vulnerable to attacks. Without cybersecurity managed services, OT networks, designed to monitor the health of networks, systems and equipment, are completely exposed to threat actors both over the Internet and out in the field. Once compromised, threats can easily spread, entrench deeply and exploit your operations undetected.
Our Solution
The increase in network connectivity and IT-like advancements to keep the OT systems current play a relevant role in networks and systems’ safety. To improve visibility with a proactive detection approach, we offer 24/7/365 integrated monitoring, alerting capabilities and managed network security services for your OT and IT systems.
How It Works:
Insight Reports
In addition to 24/7/365 monitoring, we provide regular reports that summarize analysis and insights from across your fleet/sites/facilities and present recommendations on how to continuously adapt and improve your industrial cyber operations.
We take a deeper look at your OT and ICS to report overall trends. This review includes the number of cyber events, where the exposures are, new or update software to run across, change in policies and recommended actions to help prevent incidents or events in the future.
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When it comes to the world of OT cybersecurity, organizations need to be able to answer these questions:
Your operations team can do a lot more if they know what vulnerabilities are crawling around in your systems, which could lead to OT cyber threats.
Our Solution
ICS inventories are initially developed during commissioning. Generally, this is a manual process that relies heavily on OEMs and vendors. However, throughout the lifecycle of the equipment, systems and components changes are not always logged or tracked in inventories.
As a component of visibility, our industrial cyber experts can automatically create asset inventories and topology maps. As a leading MSSP, our ICS technologies are specifically engineered to collect information on OT and IT networks, interpret that traffic, and accurately identify hardware and software types, making manual inventories a thing of the past. In addition, asset inventory supports other operations activities like obsolescence planning.
Once you know exactly what your assets are, then you can begin to protect them with our reliable cybersecurity managed services. Building security without having an accurate OT and IT asset inventory will likely fail because cyber attackers take advantage of your shortfalls to use your systems against you.
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ICSs are designed to run continuously and non-stop for extended periods of time without getting patches. Maintenance cycles are dedicated to ensuring the machinery components are repaired during a short window. OEMs and vendors are increasingly adding new industrial security technologies for maintenance and diagnostics to limit downtime. However, organizations don’t have visibility into these OT cybersecurity upgrades and the new vulnerabilities they bring.
Our Solution
The new remote connectivity for OEM/vendor maintenance is opening a clean and clear path for adversaries to exploit these vulnerabilities. By simply installing our passive OT monitoring technologies you automatically discover the vulnerabilities you have in your OT and IT networks and devices, hardware and software. It’s that simple—and it all happens with no impact to your critical ICS and OT networks.
Managing cyber risk vulnerabilities will be possible by using the priorities risk rankings and working with OEMs and vendors to prioritize security updates (operating systems, firmware, software updates or patches) during maintenance windows. It's enhanced vulnerability management: it’s more than just a scoring, it’s a risk rating.
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Management of Change (MOC) processes are not very effective due to the burden of manually logging every modification or maintenance change during routine operations. In many cases, organizations don’t have visibility into what their vendors are doing to their OT systems and devices. They are also not aware when the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) program changes, or when firmware, software or hardware updates occur in their industrial systems.
Our Solution
Vulnerabilities and threats can be introduced during system changes due to poor OT cybersecurity practices and lack of good cyber hygiene. Additionally, unplanned changes can impact peripheral operations and safety systems.
You can have an easy and automated process for tracking configuration and system changes. As a top MSSP, our passive OT monitoring technologies automatically discover firmware updates and track PLC program changes. Each change is logged and notifications can be set up to message personnel for real-time tracking. You can check your MOC documentation at any time to see planned maintenance changes.
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It’s a common practice that the setup of an ICS is completed by OEMs and vendors when installing systems, devices and components—sometimes without a clear understanding of your organization’s cybersecurity program.
Our Solution
The settings and configurations in your OT systems allow you to set specific parameters so you can meet the criteria defined in your OT cybersecurity policies. These policies are based on the different things that you want to check on your network like users’ passwords (created and changed) and accounts that have been created, updated or deleted. Anything that falls outside those policies sends an alert. This information will give you the threats, vulnerabilities and cybersecurity statistics that you need with the advantage to customize it the way you want it.
Having policy management in place proactively monitors and manages the security and privacy of your OT networks and systems, demonstrating OT cyber readiness and compliance for cybersecurity threats.
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Analytics and reporting for industrial cybersecurity are crucial to providing context and guidance as you monitor your business. However, making the determination about what metrics matter and how they should be used to protect your operations can be difficult. The data can be overwhelming or lacking clarity leaving your team without the context to navigate the next steps for appropriate cyber risk management.
Our Solution
Using Cyber Threat Intelligence, our cybersecurity team will provide periodic reports with in-depth insights that highlight threats, potential exposure, vulnerabilities, rogue hardware, software changes, and changes in policies. These reports can provide an intricate overview across land-based facilities such as power plants, wind turbine farms, refineries, marine and offshore vessels, fleets, critical assets and more. Most importantly, incident reports can provide the peace of mind that your critical assets are being monitored for cybersecurity attacks.
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Our ecosystem of industry-wide partners provides our customers with an extensive outlet for their niche cybersecurity needs and challenges. This combined with our agnostic approach allows us to integrate products and services into comprehensive cybersecurity solutions that allow our clients to take control of not only their OT risk but their IT risk via our trusted team of cybersecurity experts.
