OT Cybersecurity for the Defense Industrial Base
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The Defense Industrial Base (DIB) is an extended network of businesses, contractors, and government offices that research, develop, and design the products and services necessary to ensure military readiness. Maintaining data security is crucial within this industry. Our team at LeveL5Cyber has the experience and skills to help develop OT cybersecurity for DIB agencies.
What We Offer
decades of hands-on experience
Operational focus to secure critical infrastructure
LeveL5Cyber offers advisory services that enable businesses to scale their operations and combat evolving threats. Our experts leverage decades of experience to provide solutions that optimize cybersecurity capabilities and drive towards program maturity.
Cybersecurity for the Defense Industry
The DIB is comprised of governmental and private companies from around the world. The DoD has proposed updates to the eligibility for OT cybersecurity for the defense industrial base. These are to allow bilateral information sharing among affected agencies, including those subject to mandatory cyber incident reporting.
While there are no formal requirements for risk assessments within private DIB organizations, DoD recommendations for proper assessment and implementation include vulnerability and threats assessment for plants handling critical data. LeveL5Cyber provides OT Risk Assessments, OT cybersecurity standards development, and private consulting to ensure compliance with DIB best practices.
DIB Segments
The Defense Industrial Base includes numerous, primarily nongovernmental, organizations from sectors including:
- Aircraft
- Ammunition
- Electronics
- Information technology
- Missile
- Shipbuilding
- Space
- Troop Support
Subsegments within these industries ensure national security and operational readiness of the military. Routine risk assessments can identify potential weaknesses and strategies to mitigate them.
Where We Fit In
LeveL5Cyber has decades of hands-on experience working in cybersecurity for the defense industry to address their specific needs and requirements. Our team understands the unique challenges and processes that exist and how to bolster cyber defenses within these arenas.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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LeveL5Cyber’s Risk Assessments enable organizations to inform and prioritize decisions regarding cybersecurity. The services take into consideration today’s evolving threat landscape to drive cybersecurity priorities with an outcome-driven approach using industry standard processes.
While timing can vary, most Assessments will take approximately five to six weeks to complete. Program Development services may take longer based on the scope.
The ISA/IEC 62443 series of standards define requirements and processes for implementing and maintaining electronically secure industrial automation and control systems (IACS). These standards set best practices for security and provide a way to assess the level of security performance.
Industrial control systems (ICSs) are an integral part of critical infrastructures, helping to facilitate operations in vital industries such as electricity, oil and gas, water, transportation, manufacturing, and chemical manufacturing. The growing issue of cybersecurity and its impact on ICS highlights fundamental risks to the Nation’s critical infrastructure. Efficiently addressing ICS cybersecurity issues requires a clear understanding of the current security challenges and specific defensive countermeasures. A holistic approach—one that uses specific countermeasures implemented in layers to create an aggregated, risk-based security posture—helps to defend against cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities that could affect these systems. This approach, often referred to as Defense in Depth,
provides a flexible and useable framework for improving cybersecurity protection when applied to control systems.
A NIST Special Publication provides guidance on how to secure operational technology (OT) while addressing their unique performance, reliability, and safety requirements. OT encompasses a broad range of programmable systems and devices that interact with the physical environment (or manage devices that interact with the physical environment). These systems and devices detect or cause a direct change through the monitoring and/or control of devices, processes, and events. Examples include industrial control systems, building automation systems, transportation systems, physical access control systems, physical environment monitoring systems, and physical environment measurement systems.
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