OT & ICS Cybersecurity Consulting
Right-sized Solutions to fit all complex environments
Securing Operational Technology and Industrial Control Systems requires careful planning to develop and implement appropriate processes for unique environments. Our OT/ICS cybersecurity consultants at LeveL5Cyber offer a wide range of professional services designed to provide your organization with actionable information to bolster cybersecurity processes.
OT/ICS Cybersecurity Consulting & Enablement Services
Our team at LeveL5Cyber provides comprehensive OT Cybersecurity Consulting & Enablement services tailored to your industry and organizational needs. Services include:
- OT strategy development to optimize system and data security
- IT/OT convergence consulting to effectively merge IT and OT systems and processes into a consistent, secure environment
- OT cyber standards development to meet applicable industry standards
- Strategic consulting
We provide measurable outputs that allow tracking and facilitate internal and external monitoring. Services may also include the development of actionable roadmaps highlighting steps to integrate security practices.
Benefits of Utilizing OT Consulting and Enablement
LeveL5Cyber performs risk assessments to gauge compliance with NIST 800-82, NISTIR 8183, IEC62443, 800-171, and CMMC readiness. This benefits your organization by:
- Identifying gaps in compliance and potential weaknesses
- Optimizing existing security protocols
- Providing a clear path to maintaining best practices for cybersecurity processes
During the consulting process, our team assesses current security protocols for OT/ICS systems, identifying any vulnerabilities and gaps in compliance standards. We then use these insights to develop actionable plans to bring processes into compliance.
Learn More About OT/ICS Consulting
LeveL5Cyber has decades of experience providing OT/ICS cybersecurity Consulting & Enablement services to global enterprises. We will work with your team to develop protocols and processes that may help to ensure compliance with industry and regulatory standards. Contact our experts to learn more.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Where do we start? Often, we hear this question prior to doing assessments of enterprise Operational Technology (OT) cybersecurity postures. This is valid and at the forefront of any customer concerns. LeveL5Cyber approaches this topic by aligning your current capabilities and maturity with what can reduce the most risk. All gap recommendations are developed by seasoned operators to help produce strategic and tactical action plans that can be executed by internal resources and/or in combination with our team. It is important to keep in mind that cybersecurity programs and their associated risks change. This is where L5C brings value: Define the risks, Defend the assets.
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.
An information system used to control industrial processes such as manufacturing, product handling, production, and distribution. Industrial control systems include supervisory control and data acquisition systems used to control geographically dispersed assets, as well as distributed control systems and smaller control systems using programmable logic controllers to control localized processes.
The OT cybersecurity strategy: Refines and supplements guidance from the organization-wide risk management strategy to address OT-specific constraints and requirements; Identifies the OT cybersecurity team and personnel; Addresses the OT cybersecurity operation model (e.g., insource, outsource, and/or use managed security services); Outlines the appropriate cybersecurity architecture for the various OT sites within the OT program; Defines OT-specific cybersecurity training and awareness
A strong OT cybersecurity program is fundamental to a sustainable business operation and can potentially enhance system reliability and availability. This includes minimizing unintentional OT system information security impacts from inappropriate testing, policies, and misconfigured systems. Cyber-attacks can also have other significant impacts, such as: Physical impacts – Including personal injury and the loss of life. Other effects include the loss of property (including data) and potential damage to the environment, Economic impacts – A second-order effect of physical impacts that ensue from an OT incident, which in turn inflict a greater economic loss on the facility, organization, or others who are dependent on the OT systems. The unavailability of critical infrastructure (e.g., electrical power, transportation) can have economic impacts far beyond the systems that sustain direct and physical damage. Social impacts - Another second-order effect is the loss of national or public confidence in an organization.
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