Defending industrial operations from cyberthreats ought to at all times be high of thoughts. Nonetheless, with operations networks being typically very advanced and cyber threats rising more and more extra subtle, it may be troublesome to know the place to begin. Kam Chumley-Soltani not too long ago held a webinar outlining finest practices to guard your industrial setting from cyber threats. Kam is a Technical Options Architect in Cisco’s industrial IoT group, working with clients daily to assist them drive their OT safety tasks. Signal as much as watch the replay:  Defending industrial networks from cyber threats: The place do I begin?

Within the webinar, Kam recommends a stepped method in direction of a mature ICS/OT safety technique, implementing the next finest practices:

1. See every little thing in your industrial community

You’ll be able to’t safe what you don’t find out about. You want full visibility into your industrial community and OT safety posture, so you have got the knowledge it is advisable to scale back the assault floor, phase the economic community, and implement cybersecurity insurance policies. Cisco Cyber Imaginative and prescient provides you real-time, detailed visibility into your industrial belongings, their communication patterns, and utility flows. It embeds visibility capabilities into industrial community tools, so there’s no want for devoted safety home equipment or to construct out-of-band SPAN assortment networks.

2. Section the community into smaller belief zones

Community segmentation is essential to securing your community and defending important industrial processes. It’s additionally a requirement of the ISA/IEC62443 safety requirements. Utilizing devoted safety home equipment for zone segmentation requires you to deploy further {hardware}, create and keep firewall guidelines, and even change community wiring and IP addresses. You’ll be able to keep away from this additional price and complexity by extending software-based community segmentation insurance policies to industrial management networks. Cisco Identification Companies Engine (ISE) works with community switches, routers, and wi-fi entry factors to limit communications as per the outlined zones. And it makes use of teams outlined in Cyber Imaginative and prescient to permit/deny communications for every asset and drives collaboration between IT and OT groups.

Be part of us for a webinar on October 31 for extra particulars on the way to adjust to the ISA/IEC62443 safety requirements.

3. Safe distant entry to OT belongings

Distant entry is essential for operations groups, distributors, and contractors to configure, keep, and troubleshoot OT belongings with out time-consuming and expensive visits. Nonetheless, many present distant entry options create safety backdoors or include many tradeoffs Cisco Safe Tools Entry (SEA) is fixing the challenges of deploying safe distant entry to operational belongings at scale and brings all the advantages of a zero belief community entry (ZTNA) resolution to industrial operations. There isn’t any devoted {hardware} to put in and handle and no advanced firewall guidelines to configure and keep.

If you wish to study extra, be a part of us for a session on ZTNA on October 25 for IIoT World Cybersecurity Day. 

For extra particulars on the way to get began together with your industrial safety journey, watch Kam’s webinar replay or come to the SecurityWeek ICS Cybersecurity Convention in Atlanta subsequent week, the place Anastasia Mills and Kam Chumley-Soltani will probably be presenting a breakout session on Wednesday, October 25 at 10:25 am PST.

That is the biggest and longest-running occasion sequence centered on industrial cybersecurity. The convention attracts ICS stakeholders throughout a bunch of industries and quite a lot of OT, IT, authorities, distributors, and extra. Be sure to cease by the Cisco Sales space #18 to debate additional and meet the crew.

Share: