Indegy and QRadar | End-to-end cybersecurity solution for Industry 4.0
You’ve probably heard of Industry 4.0 or even the Fourth Revolution of the Industrial sector. Both are ways to describe the transformation process in which our entire productive fabric is immersed. A central element of this transformation has to do with massive data analysis and the emergence of artificial intelligence. There is also another lesser-known facet. One facet that has to do with the large number of interconnected devices and the security risks involved. That’s why industrial cybersecurity has become a central element for the continuity of any business. We do this with two disruptive and complementary solutions: QRadar SIEM and Indegy ICS that we will talk about later.
We do so because in our organizations there is a tendency to break down the traditional barriers or segmentations between the so-called industrial control systems and the traditional IT environments (communication networks, servers, laptops) common to the technology industry, generating new challenges and threats that have yet to be resolved.
An example of this is that episodes such as Wannacry, which affected personal computers, are world famous . Others like Stuxnet designed to damage critical nuclear power production infrastructure systems are less well known. You don’t have to go that far to understand the challenge we face. A simple sensor that can be fraudulently accessed from the internet can cause serious interruption on a production line, environmental damage or worse, or failures in hospital life support systems.
Is my business at risk?
The short answer is that probably. Countless attacks have emerged in recent years using less-known protocols and devices in the IT world but ubiquitous in any modern industry. We’re talking about components like PLC’s and RTU’s. Systems designed to control physical components such as valves, pumps, motors and systems in real time. Not forgetting the new sensors, cameras and countless connected devices (IoT). Many of these devices communicate through proprietary protocols and are prone to custom attacks. They also suffer from other vulnerabilities derived from the lack of authentication, backdoors or the absence of encryption. No less worrying are the various custom attacks for physical component control that are offered for a few hundred dollars on the DeepWeb. If the security measures are adequate your data and equipment may soon be at risk.
Worst of all, these environments are often not properly integrated into the organization’s cybersecurity solution set. This means that existing security devices: firewalls, IDS, DMZ, log collectors, antivirus, and SIEM tools do not help much.
Each sector has specific needs
But all industrial control systems can be affected by cyber-threats of different kinds
Sabotage, theft of information, fraud, blackmail, economic damage for the company. This ranges from stopping entire production lines, non-compliance with state or international regulations, theft of confidential and industrial property information. Also fraud, blackmail and countless economic and reputational risks for organizations.
That’s why we provide specific services and technologies to secure industrial environments and protect critical infrastructures. We do this from a unique perspective that allows you to unify the IT and OT environments into one cybersecurity operations center (SoC). Avoiding duplication, reducing costs and, fundamentally, providing visibility, control and security to your entire infrastructure.
