Your network is critical and provides the backbone to your existing and future operation. Are you experiencing performance issues or outages? Do you know how many devices are on your network today and their location? Have you documented network plans and policies? These and other considerations are important to ensure that your network performs optimally.

A Standard Network Assessment can help you evaluate the health and security of your company’s industrial control system network.

Benefits:

• Increase security without sacrificing productivity
• Reduce risks while improving Overall Equipment Effectiveness
• Improve network scalability and reduce the level of network support needed

Your network is one of the most important pieces of your plant’s operation; the building blocks that tie all your devices together, making sure they talk and operate as intended. Frequent testing of your Ethernet cables ensures that your network will not fail or lose efficiency and should be done on a regular basis.

Did you know an Ethernet Cable Test:

• Advises of the distance to opens/shorts and can note reversals/miswires on cable.
• Proves cable speed to IEEE standards using 3 tests:
1. Test 1 - Provides evidence of nearby power cables interfering with the data signal (EMI).
2. Test 2 - Shows dropped bits caused by improper shielding or bending.
3. Test 3 - Delay skew indicates length differences in pairs; if there is too much delay, the receiver will not be able to assemble the data properly.

Cisco® Cyber Vision gives you full visibility into your ICS, including dynamic asset inventory, real-time monitoring of control networks and process data, and comprehensive threat intelligence, so you can build secure infrastructures and enforce security policies to control risk.

Wherever you are in your journey, we have cybersecurity solution consultants and specialists to help you build, deliver, and support a plan specific to the needs of your industrial facility.

The Vulnerability Discovery Service can help you face the increasingly common and costly cybersecurity threats in industrial infrastructure.

A Vulnerability Discovery Service is designed for Customer ease of use. This service will provide visibility into your industrial network assets with no additional hardware, no configuration, and no risk of disruption. The results will provide information to assess and prioritize your OT network security risks through asset inventory, vulnerability details, and a risk assessment report.

Benefits:

• Proactively discover your vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and unsecured network connections
• Reduce cyber risk in your industrial infrastructure
• Identification and classification of assets across your ICS network
• Actionable plan for remediation of your hidden threats

An OT Risk Assessment is the process of identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing risks and vulnerabilities in OT systems to determine risk posture and mitigate risks.

Benefits:

• Identify vulnerabilities in industrial automation systems that attackers could exploit. By identifying these vulnerabilities, organizations can take steps to mitigate them and reduce the risk of a successful attack.
•  Identify and prioritize risks based on their potential impact. By addressing these risks, organizations can reduce the likelihood of a successful attack and mitigate the potential impact of a breach.
• Achieve business continuity by identifying potential cyber threats and developing strategies to mitigate the risk of disruption to critical OT systems.
• Align with industry security standards and identify gaps in security controls preventing organizations from reaching compliance certification such as NIST-CSF, NIST SP800-82 & IEC 62443.

When should an OT Risk Assessment be performed?

• Significant Changes to OT
• No Existing Security Posture Baseline
• Regulatory Compliance

With a Machine Level Network Design, we help your machines make the right connections. This service provides you the network details needed to procure, install, and configure a network for a machine or cell based on system requirements and the network it will be integrated into.