Building a cybersecurity strategy in Operational Technology
Connecting factory equipment to the internet introduces the potential risk of cyberattacks targeting critical business infrastructure. This risk is particularly significant for legacy systems, which often lack modern security features and are more susceptible to cyber threats.
Addressing the cybersecurity challenges of OT systems requires a unique, tailored approach.
Operational Technology (OT) systems are the cornerstone of critical infrastructure sectors, including energy, manufacturing, transportation, and healthcare. These systems manage and monitor industrial processes, enabling essential services that underpin modern society. Historically, OT systems were isolated from traditional Information Technology (IT) networks, operating in controlled environments with minimal exposure to external threats. However, the growing integration of IT and OT environments, driven by advancements in digital transformation and industrial automation, has significantly expanded the attack surface for cyber threats.
Connecting factory equipment to the internet introduces the potential risk of cyberattacks targeting critical business infrastructure. This risk is particularly significant for legacy systems, which often lack modern security features and are more susceptible to cyber threats.
Addressing the cybersecurity challenges of OT systems requires specialized strategies tailored to their distinct needs. This involves implementing robust network segmentation, deploying real-time monitoring tools, ensuring secure remote access, and prioritizing the integrity of safety-critical systems. By adopting a proactive and holistic approach, organizations can safeguard their OT environments against evolving threats while enabling the continued operation of critical infrastructure.
The Role of OT in Critical Infrastructure
Attackers use email to target and exploit your organization’s greatest vulnerability: humans. People trust digital communications, which makes everyone more susceptible to deception. In addition, the shift to cloud email has increased opportunities for attackers, while generative AI adds sophistication and scale. Combined with the interconnected nature of cloud apps, protecting the human vulnerability is even more critical.
Traditional gateway-based architectures rely on threat intelligence modeling, which can only detect previously seen threats. This approach is blind to zero-day attacks that leverage business context to personalize content and more effectively target your organization. As a result, an AI-native, API-based platform is required to stop email attacks today.
Provides holistic email protection
Behavioral AI adds deep understanding of what’s normal, detects nuanced threats, and identifies anomalies in communication patterns
Enables uniform cross-platform defense
Extends multi-layered security measures for
consistent protection across communication channels and eliminates the need for redundant SEGs
Accelerates AI automation
Fully automates security across the cloud-based email platform using advanced AI for threat detection and remediation
How Heighten can help
Heighten is a boutique cyber security firm with enterprise delivery capabilities. We are well known to have a strong expertise in a variety of cyber security disciplines and a track record of being part of some of the most complex and large cyber security control deployment projects in Canada.
Established in 2023 by seasoned and experienced security professionals, the rapid growth of our organization is attributed to past successes we have enjoyed at a previous firm and our reputation to be able to deliver on projects in a more time efficient and cost-conscious manner then our competitors.
We pride ourselves on our customer-focused approach and our ability to customize solutions to meet your specific requirements. If you are looking to elevate your security posture with a trusted and proven group of experts, then Heighten Security is the partner for you