ICS & OT Cybersecurity Roadmaps
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Cybersecurity roadmaps serve as guides to direct critical security efforts. The LeveL5Cyber team develops ICS/OT cybersecurity roadmaps that can help to identify compliance gaps, detail steps to remedy those gaps, and set your organization on a secure path to obtain its objectives.
What We Offer
decades of hands-on experience
- OT Strategy development
- IT/OT convergence consulting
- OT cyber standards development
- Strategic consulting
- Delivery of actionable roadmaps
- Provide measurable outputs
The Importance of ICS/OT Cybersecurity Roadmaps
It is difficult to provide appropriate security for ICS/OT systems without a proper plan, which is why comprehensive cybersecurity strategy roadmaps are critical to success
By scrutinizing ICS/OT systems, our cybersecurity roadmaps help to:
- Detail compliance deficiencies
- Identify other areas that could benefit from improved security protocols
- Provide a snapshot of current processes and how those apply to short-term and long-term goals
Combined, these improve operational readiness and cybersecurity to help you meet organizational objectives.
Cybersecurity Strategy Roadmaps
ICS/OT systems require scrutiny to ensure proper security protocols are in place. A cybersecurity strategy roadmap provides this through assessments and suggested strategies to remedy cybersecurity gaps.
Our experts design all strategic recommendations made as part of the cybersecurity roadmap to be flexible. This means organizations can prioritize which processes to implement to move closer to their end goals and full NIST or other framework alignments.
A LeveL5Cyber ICS/OT roadmap comprises several components, including:
- Expected level of effort
- Reduction in risk activities
- Prioritized list of security initiatives
- Suggestions for new processes to optimize cybersecurity
- Timeline for implementation
Develop Your Organization’s Cybersecurity Roadmap
LeveL5Cyber provides comprehensive risk assessments and develops ICS/OT cybersecurity roadmaps for critical infrastructure companies, including those in the chemical sector, critical manufacturing, DIB, and medical industries. Contact us to learn how we can help optimize your cybersecurity processes today.
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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