Cyber-Physical (OT) Security and Resilience

Operational technology (OT) or cyber-physical security and resilience are both highly important for protecting critical infrastructure and industrial processes. In today's world where we are seeing a dramatic risk in OT cyber attacks, how we protect our industrial systems, networks, IoT sensors and associated hardware are vital for public safety and preventing catastrophic events, such as blackouts, contamination, or infrastructure damage. Therefore, building and maintaining our cyber-physical resilience is a key strategy to ensure we can mitigate potential vulnerabilities and threats but when an attack occurs, we can minimise the impact it produces including risk to life.

Facing the challenges

We help ensure you can meet the unique challenges facing the cyber-physical world with our unique approaches. The challenges we have seen needing support include:

Converging operating
services

As OT and IT converge, technology alignment and optimisation are needed to ensure industry standards are met. Organisations should implement OT cyber security processes that fit their business priorities and demands, e.g. the growing need for 'smarter' operations. With this need to connect and integrate OT, we can assist with process engineering, assessments, remediation, and other strategic or practical steps to optimise your operations.

Driving cyber safety and reliability

For organisations using operational technologies in industrial processes or monitoring facilities; safety is key. Cyber security must protect public safety, your team's wellbeing and guard against threats to human life and health. Therefore, we help provide suitable modelling, safety case analysis, operations and warranty support, safety consulting and other assessments to optimise those solutions for safety and reliability.

Legacy architecture and fit for purpose design

Legacy systems do not usually reflect today's cyber hygiene best practices. Having the right controls in place protects regulatory compliance. Ensuring industrial equipment (IoT/ICS/SCADA) are fit-for-purpose also provides operational resilience. We are able to design, test, and verify security architecture to help operators identify and implement best practices as well as undertaking threat modelling and vulnerability or penetration testing

Our Managed OT Services

Asset and Risk Discovery

Identification of all OT assets including industrial control systems (ICS), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, sensors, actuators, and other devices. Conducting comprehensive risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities, assess the likelihood and impact of potential threats, and prioritise mitigation efforts.

Continuous Monitoring

Establishing a security operation centre (S0C) to monitor OT networks and systems 24/7 for signs of suspicious activities, anomalies, or security breaches. Utilising advanced security analytics, threat intelligence, and behavioural analysis techniques to detect and respond to cyber threats in real-time.

Incident and Resilience Management

Developing incident response plans and procedures tailored to OT environments to effectively detect, contain, and recover from security incidents. Resilience also works on vulnerability management through assessments including third-party risk analysis to evaluate your risk exposure and assess your supply chain's overall resilience.

Security Behaviours and Training

Providing security awareness training and education programs for OT personnel to raise awareness about security risks, policies, and best practices. Conducting phishing simulations, table-top exercises, and security drills to enhance the effectiveness of security awareness initiative whilst also developing culture change programmes.

The future 'Bunker' will be a centre of resilience monitoring incorporating the UK's first OT S-SOC (Sustainability and Security Operations Centre). The 'Bunker' will support all CNI sectors and utilise the country's largest OT/IoT threat and efficiency knowledge datasets to provide unrivalled active monitoring and resilience-as-a-service.

Danny Carroll, Managing Director

NIST SP-800-82

Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) security and maintaining performance, reliability and safety

ISO 27001:2022

Global standard for information security management systems - protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information

ISA/IEC 62443

Provides a framework to address and mitigate security vulnerabilities in industrial automation and control systems (IACSs).

CISA ICS Practices

Identifies the cybersecurity best practices for OT owners of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) when implementing a defense-in-depth strategy.

Security compliance frameworks we align to:

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