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    Energy Utilities

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    Powering a secure future: Energy utilities face more threats from more actors

    The energy utilities industry is navigating a complex and rapidly evolving threat landscape. The sheer number and variety of threats are on the rise, with malicious actors ranging from nation-states seeking to disrupt economies to cybercriminals motivated by financial gain. Hacktivists driven by ideological agendas and even disgruntled insiders pose additional security challenges.

    These threats are compounded by an expanding attack surface. With the increasing integration of technology and interconnected devices across the grid, a single compromised device can potentially exploit vulnerabilities and jeopardize entire operations and production. This creates significant risks for utility companies, with potential consequences for revenue, asset security, and, most importantly, public safety.

    Shift from reactive to proactive security by integrating prevention mechanisms and safety measures into operational processes, fortifying your operational resilience.

     

    Key Concepts for Protecting Energy Utilities
    Safeguard upstream, midstream, and downstream aspects of your energy operations.
    • Ensure operational integrity by protecting critical assets: Safeguarding PLC configurations with robust access controls through authentication, authorization, multi-factor verification, and defined group policies. Additionally, a secure credential repository minimizes investigation time for both cyber and human-caused incidents.
    • Traceability and visibility: Gain complete visibility and control with a unified platform that efficiently tracks users, devices, and all configuration versions. This allows quick access to detailed audit logs for comprehensive security and compliance.
    • Modernized and centralized management for all PLC types: Eliminate the difficulties associated with managing multi-vendor environments, while extending the lifespan of legacy PLCs by enhancing their security capabilities, ensuring they remain relevant and well-protected.
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    Energy Utilities Regulatory Requirements
    Complying with global regulatory requirements by shifting from post-incident detection to device-level, zero-trust prevention and protection

    Zero Trust Proactive Prevention:

    • Regulations call for implementation of strong mechanisms that manage user credentials on field controllers
    • Authentication of  authorized users only to change PLC configurations
    • Implementation of multi-factor authentication (MFA) and group policies
    Protect legacy and new machines to maintain operational integrity and safety

    Prevent tampering and accidental modifications to preserve energy utility companies functionality, while mitigating a host of insider and outsider cyberattacks. NanoLock cyber protection ensures ongoing operational integrity, business continuity and revenue protection.

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