Securing Industrial Operations
Increasing attacks to industrial operations have disrupted the traditional cyber model that used to separate the two worlds of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT). Today, companies need to account for cyber impacts on safety, operational continuity, liability, and national security.
In response to the evolving threat environment and the increased operational and safety risks, critical infrastructure organizations are working to integrate compliance measures, industry best practices, and past experiences to safeguard their operational technology (OT) assets long-term for and developed solid cybersecurity risk management programs.
To support our clients in their industrial cybersecurity journey, our Cyber Asset Lifecycle Management (CALM) services can be implemented throughout the lifecycle of OT assets to keep operations running safely, maximize efficiencies, and minimize costs.
No matter where our clients are in their cybersecurity journey, our team of experts can customize a CALM solution to fit their needs.
End-to-End Cybersecurity Lifecycle
Protecting existing critical infrastructure is a core focus for OT cybersecurity and most industrial cyber capabilities have been bolted onto legacy assets and programs. However, companies are now recognizing the need to build in cyber earlier to positively impact their mid and long-term security posture.
Embedding cybersecurity during early lifecycle stages into operations, maintenance and decommissioning is essential to ensuring a resilient critical infrastructure, while optimizing operations and investments.
Complete Solutions- From Design to Operations
New Construction and Modernization Projects
By integrating industrial cybersecurity at the design and construction stages of your new builds, we can help you develop network architecture and segmentation from the beginning, providing long-term visibility and control over your Operational Technology (OT) systems and networks. For modernization projects, we help our clients building OT cybersecurity into the upgrade process, preventing the introduction of vulnerabilities due to the implementation of new technologies. This results in greater visibility, lower costs, and enhanced efficiencies, ultimately building a more secure and resilient environment.
Ongoing Operations
As organizations adopt digitalization, they increase their connectivity areas, expanding their attack surface. Without the proper network segmentation, bad actors have more opportunities to infiltrate OT networks and systems. To prevent and minimize such attacks, our team of OT cybersecurity experts supports our clients by implementing industrial cybersecurity programs that provide visibility and control, improving the security and safety of their operations. With BV's ongoing support and expertise, our clients implement better cyber hygiene into their operations.
Consequence-Focused Cyber Services
The virtual world of cyber is now having physical consequences. Attacks on OT systems can have site, environmental, and public safety impacts. CALM services build on the cyber-physical nature of attacks on operations and places an emphasis on the consequences of those threats.
CALM solutions prioritize the impacts to safety and up-time, from minor to catastrophic, focusing on minimizing the likelihood and consequences of cyberattacks.
Our objective is to minimize the risk of cyber incidents affecting the operation of the critical infrastructure no matter where they originate from. This could include pivoting from IT to OT, undesired connectivity to the internet and inadvertent conducts. CALM overcomes pre-conceived notions of air gaps, IT/OT barriers, trust and more. Our focus is on safety and the continuity of core operations in critical infrastructure environments.
Many companies have mapped consequences for their operating environment into their process safety programs. CALM integrates with these programs, adding a new cyber layer to managing operational risks. Process safety programs help set cyber priorities to better manage consequences. CALM seamlessly integrates with existing programs to enable a clear understanding, adoption and management of cyber programs in industrial operations.
Our holistic approach to cybersecurity accounts for exposures that appear across every component-part of an operational system. Today, companies tackle the cyber challenge in a fragmented manner, like looking at portions of the network, omitting underlying processes and accountabilities. Understanding how complete systems operate provides better visibility and control over cyber-risk.
There is a lot of operational data that currently goes unused in cyber. Data that helps with predictive maintenance, operational monitoring and equipment health doesn’t often get fed into the industrial cyber programs. This data can inform the impacts of cyberattacks. CALM integrates all available operational data to provide enhanced intelligence and visibility into industrial environments.
Beyond Cybersecurity Compliance
Our CALM services incorporate internationally recognized industry standards (ISA/IEC 62443, NIST CSF), addresses key regulations and directives (CISA, NERC CIP, NIS2 Directive) along with national and local requirements, and applies best practices to help build and maintain a strong industrial cyber program. It also applies principles from change management, stakeholder management and other disciplines that address the strategic business aspects of establishing and running a successful cyber program.
Let’s Talk Cyber
Companies are often at various places along an asset’s cyber lifecycle, often at several points simultaneously. CALM accounts for all of these and ensures that there are robust industrial cybersecurity controls (i.e. countermeasures) to protect assets throughout their lifecycle. Contact us to get more information about how we can help you with your cybersecurity program.
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