Increasing Cybersecurity Effectiveness For An Energy Industry

Intro

The energy industry is a popular target for cybercriminals. Their infrastructure plays a crucial role in modern society and they hold a wealth of important and sensitive data on their customers. Cybercriminals prioritise energy companies as targets due to the effectiveness that ransomware attacks have, leading to easy leverage for ransoms in the form of data, money, and geopolitical gainsThere are a wide variety of cyber security services that can alleviate the challenges the industry face. Many energy companies seek 24x7x365 protection, combined with effective threat detection and response to prevent the vast majority of attacks. Combined with regular penetration testing, it’s possible remediate vulnerabilities and increase cyber security effectiveness, regardless of the complexity of the infrastructure

Challenge

Energy companies face a variety of cyber security challenges. Firstly, operational technology is becoming a much more attractive target for cybercriminals. If it’s poorly defended, it can lead to operational disruption for the company and it’s customers, possibly ending in regulatory finesVulnerabilities are a key concern for the energy industry, both within their operational technology and their network infrastructure. These have to be located and remediated as soon as possible to avoid a cyber-attackThe frequency and complexity of cyber-attacks targeting the industry is constantly increasing. Organisations have to develop their threat detection and response capabilities to match this as well as adapt their approach to facilitate 24x7x365 monitoring

Solution

To secure operational technology, we conduct regular penetration testing of the energy organisation’s infrastructure. The more frequent this testing, the more assured they can be that any vulnerabilities present are remediated as soon as possibleWe pair this with a managed detection and response (MDR) solution which provides the people, technology, and infrastructure required to locate, investigate, and respond to emerging cyber threats and proactively protect both operational technology and network infrastructureFinally, our managed SOC service offers 24x7x365 monitoring to extend protection further, providing complete cyber security coverage at all times of day, wherever the organisation is located

The Results

• Reduced impact of cyber-attacks targeting operational technology
• 24x7x365 protection, eliminating out-of-hours weakness
• Reduced cyber security overheads
• Ensures regulatory and security standard compliance

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