Industrial Cybersecurity

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Custom-Built Cybersecurity for OT Environments

Achieving cyber maturity is a journey that requires planning, preparation, and incremental progress. The process may seem daunting at first, but by breaking it down into manageable stages, organizations can reach new heights in their cybersecurity capabilities. Interstates' tailored OT cybersecurity solutions integrate seamlessly with existing systems, ensuring maximum protection. Let us help you navigate the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape and safeguard your critical assets.

The Importance of Cybersecurity

Increase Resilience

Resilience is crucial to maintaining trust and continuous operations amidst cyber threats to industrial facilities.

Strengthen Your Cybersecurity Posture

Right-sizing your cybersecurity approach is critical for ensuring your company's protection matches its unique needs.

Maximize Plant Uptime

OT systems have unique characteristics that require specialized knowledge and skills to keep running, including real-time operating environments, legacy technologies, and highly specialized applications.

Bridge the IT/OT Divide

Establish common business goals to unify IT and OT resources to build empathy and understanding across historically siloed environments.

Our Proven Approach

Similar to climbing a mountain, achieving cyber maturity is an expedition filled with challenges and obstacles. By using a recognized cybersecurity framework to break this process down into manageable steps, we can recommend critical activities that will pave your way to success.

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Identifying Risks and Threats

Like a climber researches a mountain's terrain and potential hazards, identifying industrial cybersecurity risks and threats is crucial. Our team conducts interviews and infrastructure examinations to identify critical systems that support your operations. Identifying these systems is essential for surviving a cybersecurity incident.

A cybersecurity risk assessment involves assessing vulnerabilities, assets, and potential threats while establishing a baseline of current security measures.

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Protecting Against Threats

Similar to climbers preparing with appropriate gear for harsh weather and hazards on the mountain, cybersecurity protection measures include access controls, firewalls, encryption, and more to prevent unauthorized access and data loss.

Just like climbers routinely inspect and test their gear, we can help organizations review and update their protective measures to stay effective against evolving threats.

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Detecting Security Breaches

Similar to climbers being vigilant to watch for potential hazards, organizations must implement technologies and processes like security monitoring and intrusion detection to reveal any potential security breaches. The longer hackers remain undetected in your network, the more systems they can compromise, making it harder to evict and clean up after them.

By reviewing your current systems and processes, we can determine if they are sufficient to identify when a hacker has gained access to your network.

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Responding to Incidents

A climber must react quickly and effectively to changes in the environment, such as a sudden storm or rockfall, and organizations must have a plan in place to respond to cybersecurity incidents. This includes having an incident response team, clear procedures for reporting and responding to incidents, and regular practice drills to ensure preparedness.

We can work with you to create a prepared response plan, which can help reduce the time it takes to secure your systems, remove infections, and restore operations.

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Recovering After An Incident

Having a recovery plan for a cybersecurity incident is much like a climber regrouping after a storm. This plan should include procedures for data backup, system restoration, and methods for analyzing the incident to learn from it.

With a strong recovery plan in place, we’ve helped organizations minimize the impact of cybersecurity incidents. We recommend keeping spare systems on standby, air-gapped data backups beyond hacking reach, and redundant backups for a clean copy of data.

Service Spotlight SecureStart: A First Step In Industrial Cybersecurity

SecureStart is a practical, structured start to operational technology security. It focuses on foundational steps such as antivirus protection, backup validation, and patching guidance. It's specifically tailored for organizations that run lean teams, rely on consistent uptime, and don't have in-house cybersecurity expertise. SecureStart is not a theoretical framework or a lengthy audit—it's a hands-on, fixed-scope engagement designed to identify the most pressing risks to your operations and provide an actionable roadmap you can implement with or without ongoing outside support.

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