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Critical infrastructure such as electricity distribution, water supply, transportation and telecommunications all depend on IT systems for management, surveillance and control. Industrial control systems (ICS), also called SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition), are in fact consequently essential to maintain the functionality of modern society and needs to be protected in the best possible way.
Cybersecurity in critical infrastructure
Critical infrastructure such as electricity distribution, water supply, transportation and telecommunications all depend on IT systems for management, surveillance and control. Industrial control systems (ICS), also called SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition), are in fact consequently essential to maintain the functionality of modern society. Interruptions or intrusions in services such as energy, water, transportation or healthcare can have devastating effects.
Threats against this sector could come at great cost not only to the business, but to customers as well as society. These threats are arising as actors in critical infrastructure are not integrating IT/OT in a secure way. In insecure political times, critical infrastructure is a major part of the civil defence and must therefore prepare to work even during heavy pressure such as cyberattacks.
There are no shortcuts when it comes to cybersecurity. Encryption is merely part of the overall protection, segmentation another. You always have to have a holistic approach and also include physical security and human factors.
Security regulations for actors in critical infrastructure
There are several regulations for actors in critical infrastructure to follow. For example, the NIS Directive aims to promote security measures and boost EU member states’ level of protection of critical infrastructure. In other words, it improves information security of operators in sectors that provide essential services to our society and economy. This also means that action needs to be taken by actors in critical infrastructure to fulfill these security demands.
Another law that might be important for your organisation is the Protective Security Act. It clarifies the obligations for companies with security-sensitive activities and the importance of the operators performing security protection analyses for their operations.
There are also new EU rules on cybersecurity aspects of cross-border electricity flows. The new regulation should contribute to strengthening the electricity system’s resilience against cyberattacks.
If your organisation falls under these or any other regulations, you need to raise the level of your information security and make sure you use the right security products. Important to know is that it could be that you would benefit from using cybersecurity products with certain certifications, such as an N3 data diode, as this would be satisfactory during an audit.
How Advenica can help you with your cybersecurity challenges
Advenica offers the most secure data protection available, and we can offer cybersecurity customised for your specific use. We have served the Swedish national security and Swedish infrastructure organisations for decades and this has driven us to deliver the highest level of service. As a customer to Advenica you can always expect the best service from us.
Our products and solutions are designed to improve the information security of infrastructure essential to societal functioning, ensuring these systems remain operational and secure from cyber threats. The products, such as data diodes and network encryptions, ensure that networks can be physically isolated while allowing secure information exchange. This minimises the risk of cyber attacks that could lead to operational disruptions.
Why you should invest in cybersecurity products from Advenica
With Advenica as your cybsersecurity supplier you can expect the best as we protect your data from the worst!
- It will be your best investment: Defending your data protects your operations from the risk of bankruptcy and our society from collapse.
- You will experience excellent service: Feel the difference from our competitors as you receive cybersecurity delivered with exceptional service.
- You will get peace of mind: Advenica has served Swedish national security for decades. We provide the highest level of cybersecurity for critical data communication. Our solutions are customised for your organisation.
Products needed to protect information in critical infrastructure
Advenica's data diodes
SecuriCDS Data Diode prevents intrusion and leakage in addition to maintaining network integrity and confidentiality. This high assurance solution safeguards assets for operators within ICS/SCADA or the defence industry.
Advenica's File Security Screener
The File Security Screener (FSS) is a state-of-the-art, high security data transfer solution based on a guaranteed unidirectional data diode technology and malware security scanning.
Common use cases for businesses in critical infrastructure
Network segmentation
An important part of improving your cybersecurity is to work with network segmentation. Network segmentation in data networks means dividing a data network into subnetworks, where each is a network segment. The benefits of such splitting are mainly to improve security and performance.
Secure IT/OT integration
Historically, OT systems were often entirely standalone. However, the need to connect OT to other systems has grown with the digitalisation of society. IT and OT are therefore connected, and similar technology is often used in IT and OT. The different needs in IT and OT can easily lead to challenging technical conflicts.
Secure transfer of SCADA information
When SCADA systems become increasingly complex and control more socially critical functions, they are also more vulnerable, and the challenge is to digitalise in a secure way. At the same time, the need to transfer information to other networks is growing to be able to work efficiently.
Secure centralised logging
Most IT-systems generate logs that enable troubleshooting and traceability. To benefit from such logs, it is important to combine logs from many systems. But with security-sensitive or zoned systems, you need to use special solutions to mitigate the increased risk of attacks that come with centralised logging.
Improved Scada security
The basis for all work with information security is a continuous and systematic approach as it identifies several different security functions. But which measures are the most important for achieving security in SCADA systems? We have compiled the various security measures with which you commonly need to work!
Secure updates
Updates for Windows and Linux systems are an important part of maintaining the security of the digital information in these systems. However, the updates themselves may be a security risk – to avoid these risks and to maintain the integrity and availability of the systems and be able to make secure updates, special solutions are required.
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Cases relevant to the critical infrastructure sector
We have experience with cases within this sector.
Read our cases with an energy customer in Sweden and with the Austrian energy customer Wiener Netze.
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