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Tenable and Siemens partner to secure critical infrastructure & reduce cybersecurity risks

By Michelle Froese | June 12, 2018

Tenable, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, announced the industry’s first solution designed to reduce cybersecurity risk across converged IT/OT environments. The company has enhanced its Tenable.io platform and Industrial Security — an asset discovery and vulnerability detection solution for Operational Technology (OT) systems.

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tenable.i.o is the first Cyber Exposure platform to protect critical assets on any computing platform.

Tenable is working in partnership with Siemens to better enable organizations to manage cyber exposure holistically, across IT and OT, and effectively prioritize remediation based on the criticality of the assets and vulnerability.

OT and critical infrastructure systems were initially designed to work in isolation from the network and walled off from outside cybersecurity threats. But digital transformation has turned these once-isolated systems into connected devices, making them high value targets for attackers. In fact, attacks on OT assets often start by compromising IT systems and then moving laterally, as noted in the FBI and Department of Homeland Security issued an unprecedented warning about Russian state-sponsored attacks on U.S. critical infrastructure.

Converged environments contain a mix of IT and OT devices and systems that demand a holistic approach to cybersecurity so that organizations can accurately manage, measure, and reduce security risks.

“The security challenges facing organizations with operational technologies cannot be overstated. IT and OT assets individually — and together as converged systems — comprise part of the modern attack surface, and are therefore points of cybersecurity risk,” explained Dave Cole, chief product officer, Tenable. “Organizations that approach understanding their state of security by neglecting to view OT assets as part of the attack surface lack critical visibility required to understand their Cyber Exposure.”

The new system enhancements include:

  • Smart scanning: Smart scanning builds an intelligence layer on top of active scanning and passive network monitoring to assess IT and OT systems within a single workflow. Active scanning is generally too intrusive for sensitive OT systems and can cause system disruption if performed on these devices. Smart Scanning will stop actively scanning IT assets when it encounters an OT device.

  • Expanded OT asset coverage: Tenable has expanded its assessment capabilities across an even broader range of OT assets. Expanded support includes over 250 additional devices and applications from Siemens, Schneider and Rockwell/Allen-Bradley, providing customers with broader visibility across their OT assets and mixed IT/OT technology environments.

  • Interactive topology maps: New 2D and 3D topology maps display the relationships between IT and OT assets as part of a converged system. This new level of IT and OT asset intelligence combined with deep vulnerability intelligence provide customers with a risk-based heat map based on the criticality of the asset and the vulnerability, enabling more efficient prioritization and faster remediation.

“With Tenable.io, including our Industrial Security offering purpose-built for OT Security, Tenable is uniquely breaking down silos, providing a unified view of Cyber Exposure across converged IT/OT environments,” added Cole.

The announcement comes within a month of the Tenable Research team’s discovery of a critical remote code execution vulnerability in two Schneider Electric applications used in manufacturing wind and solar power facilities, as well as oil and gas, water, automation. It underscores the company’s commitment to pioneering solutions for cybersecurity for OT and critical infrastructure.

 


Filed Under: Cybersecurity, News
Tagged With: siemens
 

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