Building the Next Generation of Industrial Cyber Defenders
Siemens Energy and National Academic and Non-profit Partners announced a new Cybersecurity & Industrial Infrastructure Security Apprenticeship Program (CIISAp).
Blog: Building the Next Generation of Industrial Cyber Defenders
Intelligent Illumination for IoT Cyber Defense
Cybersecurity is mission critical for energy companies.
Here's why:
Attack frequency and severity
Energy companies increasingly recognize that their likelihood of being attacked is nearly 100% and that they must strengthen their agility and resiliency so they can respond when - not if - they are attacked.
Complex and changing regulatory environment
Governments are responding to the growing cyber threat by rolling out comprehensive critical infrastructure regulations. But there is a difference between being compliant and being secure.
Digitalization is making cyber a business imperative
Increased connectivity, automation, and data-driven operations makes a strong cybersecurity program essential.
What can be done to prevent cyber attacks?
Cybersecurity for the Oil and Gas industry
Cyber Resilience in the Oil and Gas Industry: Playbook for Boards and Corporate Officers
Siemens Energy, Saudi Aramco and the World Economic Forum launched a cybersecurity playbook for the oil and gas industry. The report, “Cyber Resilience in the Oil and Gas Industry Playbook”, establishes a blueprint for boards and business leaders to evaluate cyber risk and enhance cyber resilience across the industry.
Cyber Solutions
Energy Industry
Understand your cyber strengths and weaknesses
Our offering:
Gap analysis
What you will get:
Findings report that includes both a critical gap summary and a roadmap for recommended remediation
Protect your perimeter, review your security and deploy regular malware updates
Our offering:
Firewall assessment and patch management
What you will get:
Findings and recommendations for heightened security; malware pattern updates and management
Increase your preparedness to respond to a security event or cyber attack
Our offering:
Incident response planning and testing
What you will get:
Detailed plan on how to respond to and remediate cyber attacks, including emergency procedures, roles, and resources
Gain the capability for real-time detection and prevention of security threats
Our offering:
Security event monitoring system
What you will get:
Real-time monitoring by collecting and parsing security logs
The Siemens Energy Vulnerability Management solution provides a non-intrusive way to discover, visualize, and monitor sensitive systems continuously. We provide technical support for designing, deploying, and enabling Tenable's unique software on the control system network to provide a complete picture across the network.
Plant managers often lack an up-to-date, comprehensive asset inventory of all connected assets. Siemens Energy, in conjunction with PAS™, helps our customers meet this challenge with automated Cyber Asset Management. This includes configuration change management and advice on potential cybersecurity threats.
What are the challenges you face in building a cyber defense program?
Do you fear that connectivity makes you more not less vulnerable to cyber attacks?
Many energy companies keep their networks unconnected because they believe this makes them cyber secure.
This misguided strategy will fall victim to more successful attacks, from inside and outside.
Connectivity gives you visibility which provides insight.
Do you lack understanding of what assets to protect?
Many companies do not know what assets and devices exist on their OT networks.
This limits their understanding of where their infrastructure is most vulnerable.
Do you have a shortage of in-house OT cyber expertise?
Most energy companies have focused on building up their IT cyber capabilities. But these cannot be simply deployed into the OT environment because of differences in the systems, data, devices, and critical dependencies.
Because of this inattention to OT, cybersecurity experts who can secure complex, aging, and interdependent infra-structure are hard to find.
Do you have older legacy systems with exposures and vulnerabilities that are difficult to protect?
OT systems are older than IT systems.
OT equipment, which can last decades, is often developed with proprietary systems that have exposures and vulnerabilities difficult to protect.
Are your security monitoring and response capabilities adequate?
Even if a company detects a potential intrusion into its OT cybersecurity environment, it may lack the plans or capabilities to respond effectively.
Do you need a multi-vendor cyber solution?
Cyber solutions must apply across multiple vendors to provide a single, seamless cyber program.
If you say “yes” to one or more of the questions above, you are not alone. For energy companies, the probability of a cyber attack is nearly 100%.
Overcoming the fear of connectivity is essential because the benefits of digitalization are too great. Organizations must focus on agility and resiliency so they can respond when – not if – they are attacked.
Our Team
We combine our deep OT know-how with cutting-edge technology from selected partners to provide end-to-end solutions for every step in our customers' cybersecurity journey.
