Cyberoam offers holistic security for critical infrastructure

With integrated threat protection, situational awareness and security controls for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) including SCADA, Cyberoam has announced the availability of security for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) on its UTM and NGFW network security appliances. Until recently, organizations maintained their critical infrastructure and Operational Technology (OT) ecosystem as closed silos. Cyberoam aims to bridge these inherent security gaps in ICS environments to support secure migration / integration with TCP/IP networks.
 
Having become a part of “The Internet of Things”, critical infrastructure is now exposed to cyber threats and network security risks that were until now seen only with business networks.
 
Abhilash Sonwane, Senior VP, Product Management, Cyberoam, said, “Findings by ICS-CERT and other security studies reveal that cyber attackers are aggressively leveraging tools and databases like SHODAN search engine and ‘The Internet Census’ to identify Internet-exposed critical infrastructure devices. As per an estimate, over half a million ICS devices with poor or no authentication are exposed over the Internet. Integration of ICS and IT networks indeed augurs well for organizational productivity but unfortunately it has occurred at the cost of security. Cyberoam aims to bridge this gap with a security approach that enables businesses harness IT integration without compromising the security of their critical infrastructure and ICS such as SCADA.”
 
By adding layer-8 and layer-7 capabilities, logging and reporting and IPS defence on top of ICS networks, Cyberoam gives required visibility and control enabling actionable security intelligence to protect critical infrastructure.