Improving cybersecurity practices within utilities sector
Gain complete visibility of your network operations, prioritize vulnerability remediation, and eliminate network disruption.
Learn the five steps to close the gap between your OT and IT systems in the utility sector:
- Strengthen your security posture management.
- Implement automation to ensure continuous compliance.
- Create a common view across security, OT/IT with a network model.
- Eliminate silos and remove security blind spots.
- Reduce downtime by optimizing remediation options beyond patching.
In this era of volatility and change, of rising prices and global unrest – energy companies must be ready to respond.
Regulatory compliance and risk mitigation are ever more challenging. Vulnerabilities for utility organizations are proliferating at an unprecedented rate and the convergence of operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) has produced a far larger attack surface with greater risk.
As every security professional will acknowledge, you cannot protect what you cannot see. And you cannot prioritize without complete visibility.
Broadly, the utilities industry must protect its critical infrastructure and its supply chains as the energy system becomes decentralized, more digital, and increasingly decarbonized.
All this is happening as organizations seek to bring analog and digital systems together for the first time. Closing the air gap between operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) maximizes resource utilization and expands access to actionable insights, increasing the threat vector.
The utilities sector faces five era-defining trends: volatility, decarbonization, decentralization and convergence, digitalization and regulatory complexity. In this paper, we explore all five trends and examine the compliance and cyber risk implications. With this insight, organizations can improve security visibility, collaboration, and defense strategies.
Through comprehensive modelling and analytics using our unique platform, Skybox can provide you with complete visibility of your entire attack surface, including third party networks, so you can truly understand, proactively respond to your greatest security risks, and better protect your critical assets against vulnerabilities.
As trusted by world’s largest and most complex energy and utility companies, Skybox is the ideal partner to help you securely manage the changes in your diverse and distributed energy networks, eliminate network disruption and simplify the vulnerability remediation process.
Today’s business leaders need to see around corners to get ahead of their threats. At Skybox, we don’t just serve up data and information; we provide the intelligence that allows you to make informed decisions. Nowhere is that more important than in the volatile world of energy.
