Security Solutions for the Energy Sector
Prevent and defend against threats targeting Operational Technology environments.
Overview
Energy sector cyber attacks are on the rise. As one of the sixteen national critical infrastructure sectors, it is vital that the energy industry adequately defend themselves from ransomware attacks, industrial espionage and state sponsored attacks.
Energy companies across the board are adopting a defense-in-depth approach to cybersecurity that reduces risk with each effective layer of protection and combines a mix of defensive and offensive measures for maximum protection against a breach.
Early and accurate visibility, lateral movement prevention and detection arm energy companies with a proactive defense, reducing their attack surface, and increasing an attacker’s cost and complexity to effectively derail their effort.
Why Visibility, Prevention and Detection are Essential For Energy
COST OF CYBERCRIME TO ENERGY SECTOR
Average cost of a breach in an industrial plant:
6.4 million
— PONEMON
RISK OF BEING COMPROMISED
68 % of oil and gas companies report having been breached
— SIEMENS
MITIGATE CYBER RISKS
61 % of energy companies report having difficulty mitigating cyber risks across the oil and gas value chain
— PONEMON
THREAT TO ICS & SCADA
71.49% of vulnerabilities discovered in ICS systems are exploited through a network attack vector
— Claroty
Benefits
Energy organizations choose Attivo Networks ® security solutions for:
Visibility & Prevention
Identity Risk Visibility
Continuous visibility to credential, AD objects, and cloud entitlement exposures including health scores and topographical maps
AD Attack & Risk Visibility
Over 200 checks to assess Active Directory risk and vulnerabilities and live attack detection
Credential & Entitlement Risk Visibility
Unequaled visibility to identity and entitlement exposures at endpoints, Active Directory, and the cloud.
Attack Surface Reduction
Visibility to exposures and attack paths for prompt remediation and reduction of the attack surface across the enterprise.
Detection & Protection
Ransomware & APT Derailment
Prevent & detect credential misuse, privilege escalation, and lateral movement with visibility, data cloaking, misdirection, and decoy.
Identity Detection & Response
Unequaled visibility to identity and entitlement exposures at endpoints, Active Directory, and the cloud.
Credential Protection
Protect against credential theft and misuse with credential cloaking, lures, and misdirections.
Endpoint Detection
Boost endpoint detection performance by an average of 42% with protection against credential, AD, and APT attacks.
Lateral Movement Detection
Detection for stage 2 attacks including discovery, reconnaissance, credential theft and privilege escalation techniques.
Decoy & Threat Intelligence
Create an active defense by adding in decoys to obfuscate the attack surface and gain company-centric threat intelligence.
Fulfill compliance
Prepare for and satisfy audit and compliance requirements with on-demand assessments and continuous AD pen testing.
Use Cases for the Energy Industry
— Detect discovery activity
— Not reliant on signatures to detect attacks
— No pattern matching or database look up
— In-network threat detection
— Detect early reconnaissance
— Detect lateral movement
— Detect activities used to maintain presence
- Continuous visibility to exposures and misconfigurations in Active Directory
- Detect threats and stop attacks in real-time
- Reduce Active Directory attack surface
- Add detection efficiency without needing privileged access or touching production Active Directory
— Decoys can be deployed to mimic production HMIs
— Decoys include deceptive data that further distracts/confuses/redirects
— When decoys are engaged, events and alerts are immediately generated
— Wastes the attacker’s time, keeping them away from critical infrastructure
— Demonstrate in-network detection
— Forensics to demonstrate resolution
— Misdirect attacks away from production data
— DecoyDocs for counterintelligence on attacker intent
— Hide and deny access to sensitive data and storage
— Detects across every attack surface
— User Network
— Data Center
— Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google, OpenStack)
— Specialized: IOT, ICS, POS
Managing Cyber Risk in the Electric Power Sector
Protecting an Energy Utility Company’s Critical Assets with Deception Technology
Company
A large Public Energy Utility Company
Situation
Information security management believed existing defenses provided inadequate detection and reporting capability in the event of a compromise.
Outcome
The Attivo ThreatDefend® platform provided visibility into misconfigurations, early detection of threats and actionable alerts for efficient incident response.
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BEST DECEPTION SOLUTION
“ATTIVO MAY WELL BE THE BEST DECEPTION SOLUTION ON THE MARKET TODAY.”
— CTOVISION
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