Asset Discovery and Inventory Management

Accurate, centralized IoT and OT asset data is crucial for effective cybersecurity management and operational monitoring.

Clients require comprehensive software that automatically creates an OT and IoT asset inventory and keeps it up to date. It should identify network devices, validate details, and provide precise descriptions. The software should monitor each asset's metadata in real-time and collect attributes to guarantee a safe and reliable asset information is on file.

Our clients require a solution that provides a holistic view of asset inventory data at the tip of their fingers without the need for manual intervention. A system that is easy to visualize, find and drill down on OT device information. A system that can generate alerts when changes to hardware, software, and devices occur, quickly bringing process risks or potential cyber incidents to the client's attention.

Vulnerability Assessments and Management

The purpose of an OT cybersecurity vulnerability assessment is to identify weaknesses and potential entry points that could be exploited by malicious actors to compromise the integrity, availability, or confidentiality of the OT systems. It involves a comprehensive examination of the network infrastructure, communication protocols, control systems, and associated devices.

By conducting regular OT cybersecurity vulnerability assessments, our clients can proactively identify and address potential weaknesses, reducing the risk of successful cyberattacks and protecting critical infrastructure.

Antivirus and Patch Management

A centralized antivirus system provides continual updating, network-wide protection across all types of devices through a single console. It removes the need for clients to update their own devices independently in different locations. Systems are updated on time, every day and do not compromise the network speed or performance, as the central console can balance out the data load when scanning for viruses or updating. Patch management is the subset of systems management that involves identifying, acquiring, testing, and installing patches, or code changes, that are intended to fix bugs, close security holes, or add features.

Our customers require a solution that keep system uptime high to ensure minimal impact on production. OT Networks are known to have standalone, workgroup, and legacy systems. An antivirus and patch management service also looks after these devices and thus mitigating the risk of infections across the whole OT environment. Patches are tested in QA environments and scheduled through CAB.

Intrusion Detection and Prevention

An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is a network security technology built for detecting vulnerability exploits against a target application or computer. Attackers are capable of exploiting vulnerabilities quickly once they enter the network thus IDS is not adequate for prevention. Intrusion detection and intrusion prevention systems (IPS) are both essential to security information and event management. Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) add the ability to block threats. This has become the dominant deployment option for IDS/IPS technologies.

Our clients require an IDPS solution where OT devices must remain online and risk-free. We use a combination of IDS and IPS tools to ensure the environment stays operational with the highest security possible.

Penetration Testing

The purpose of an OT cybersecurity penetration test is to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses in the OT environment that could be exploited by malicious actors to compromise the integrity, availability, or confidentiality of the operational technology systems. The test involves simulated attacks on the OT infrastructure to assess its resilience and identify potential security gaps.

Our customers require penetration testing in live production environments that must be carefully planned and coordinated to minimize disruptions and ensure safety. CSI³ has specialized expertise that can complete OT penetration testing and understand the unique nature of operational technology systems and the potential impact on physical processes.

Application Whitelisting

In the context of cybersecurity, application whitelisting involves creating a list of approved applications, files, or processes that are deemed safe and authorized to run. This list, known as a whitelist, can include specific software programs, executables, libraries, scripts, or even digital signatures. When application whitelisting is implemented, any application or process that is not included in the whitelist is automatically blocked or prevented from executing. This helps to mitigate the risks associated with malware, viruses, ransomware, and other types of malicious software that may attempt to run on a system.

Clients require only authorized applications to run to significantly reduce the attack surface and minimize the chances of a successful breach or compromise. With OT systems usually consisting of legacy hardware, Operating systems, and software, incompatibility starts occurring with new Antivirus (AV) software. By enrolling Application control, we are eliminating the need to install legacy AV software that is ineffective with today’s threats. We only allow “what needs to happen” on the hardware and lock it down by whitelisting the required applications.

Device Hardening

Device hardening is the process of securing and strengthening the security posture of electronic devices, such as computers, servers, mobile devices, routers, and other hardware systems. The goal of device hardening is to minimize vulnerabilities and potential attack surfaces, making it more difficult for unauthorized users or malicious entities to compromise the device or gain unauthorized access.

Our clients require a solution to remove unnecessary features, keep OS and software up-to-date, manage vulnerabilities, encrypt data, and restrict users and access to their OT devices. CSI³ will apply hardening measures and continuously maintain and update them to address emerging threats and security issues.

Encryption and Data Integrity

Encryption and data integrity are two critical aspects of securing industrial control systems and protecting sensitive information in industrial environments.

Encryption is the process of converting data into a coded form to prevent unauthorized access or tampering while Data integrity is the assurance that data remains unchanged and uncorrupted during storage, transmission, or processing.

Our customers require maintenance of data integrity that is essential to prevent unintended modifications or corruption, which could lead to incorrect control actions or operational disruptions. CSI³ will apply best practices to secure communications and encrypt OT data.

OT Security Operations Center

An OT Security Operations Center (OT SOC) is a specialized facility or team responsible for monitoring and managing the cybersecurity of operational technology (OT) systems within an organization. The primary purpose of an OT SOC is to ensure the safety, reliability, and security of OT systems by continuously monitoring for potential cyber threats and promptly responding to any incidents that may occur.

Clients require a team that can manage cybersecurity threats, incidents and anomalies, threat intelligence and vulnerabilities, real-time alerts, and compliance and provides security awareness training, collaboration, and cross-skilling across the business ecosystem. Our OT SOC provides the expertise and tools necessary to safeguard these critical systems from cyber threats and helps maintain the overall resilience of our client infrastructure.

Awareness and Training

Cybersecurity awareness and training are emphasized to mitigate risks and protect systems and data from potential cyber threats. Our clients require raised awareness and training to be provided to employees with strategies like conducting regular training sessions, phishing simulators, posters and infographics, email reminders, gamified learning, webinars and workshops, reward systems etc.

By implementing good awareness and training solutions, our clients can reduce security breaches, increase threat detection, protect intellectual property, enhance compliance, save costs, boost employee morale, and gain long-term resilience against cybercrimes.

Zero Trust Network

Cybersecurity awareness and training are emphasized to mitigate risks and protect systems and data from potential cyber threats. Our clients require raised awareness and training to be provided to employees with strategies like conducting regular training sessions, phishing simulators, posters and infographics, email reminders, gamified learning, webinars and workshops, reward systems etc.

By implementing good awareness and training solutions, our clients can reduce security breaches, increase threat detection, protect intellectual property, enhance compliance, save costs, boost employee morale, and gain long-term resilience against cybercrimes.