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In a recently published survey, the majority of industrial companies questioned said they had problems with their existing OT security solution. The biggest challenges are:
Operators in industries such as manufacturing, energy supply and logistics tell us that industry-leading security solutions are required. Our customers are also keen to stress that the main thing they need – in addition to strong security – is uninterrupted availability. Any outage naturally affects their bottom line. Furthermore, outages of their OT systems endanger the safety of employees, customers and the entire population.
Decision-makers in industrial companies are thus faced with the difficult balancing act of maintaining availability, uptime and occupational safety while implementing and guaranteeing cyber security. Covering new attack surfaces, such as remote operations or OT systems connected to 5G and the cloud, adds to the challenge. Here, our experts recommend the zero trust approach.
A zero trust OT security approach enables companies to achieve comprehensive visibility. A typical OT environment essentially features three types of OT and IoT resources:
Additionally, Palo Alto Networks’ Zero Trust OT Security solution, for example, assesses the risk of OT assets by monitoring behaviour, internal and external communications and alerts to deviations from normal process behaviour. Asset-identification and risk-assessment are performed passively and without affecting OT processes.
At the same time, this OT security solution secures the OT perimeter by segmenting OT networks from enterprise IT and protects OT assets with fine-grained segmentation based on OT asset risk, protocol context and process criticality. In this way, companies can prevent threats from spreading from their IT network to their OT network..
Palo’s Zero Trust OT Security solution enables companies a full implementation of the least-privilege principle. This is done by identifying remote applications based on App IDs and their interactions with OT assets in the facility or on site. This helps to further secure remote access with consistent zero trust, least-privilege access to OT environments for third parties and manufacturing employees.
Enterprises can enforce granular segmentation policies based on visibility of 5G traffic with Palo Alto Networks’ Zero Trust OT Security. The solution identifies subscriber ID, device ID, applications and 5G services in all facilities and remote locations. This helps companies reduce their attack surface, prevent unauthorised access and stop the lateral movement of threats. The Zero Trust OT Security solution continuously assesses the health of mobile OT resources and accelerates incident response by correlating and isolating infected OT resources.
With comprehensive visibility and security for OT assets, 5G networked assets and remote operations, Zero Trust OT Security from Palo Alto Networks supports consistent implementation of the zero trust principle wherever it is needed. Zero Trust OT Security provides industry-leading security and outstanding operational availability:
By implementing the three principles described above, Palo Alto Networks has developed a solution that provides exactly what OT managers need: zero trust security and 24/7 operation of the OT environments.
The InfoGuard “Zero Trust Readiness Assessment” is exactly the right starting point for identifying risks and weaknesses in the current zero trust strategy or its implementation! Among other things, we will show you which good practices have not yet been sufficiently defined or implemented in your zero trust strategy. Discrepancies are assessed in terms of their risk-criticality. Prioritised recommendations for action are developed on this basis and presented in the form of a solution path. Interested? Then we look forward to receiving your enquiry: