OT Firewall Lifecycle Management
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As cybersecurity threats evolve, LeveL5Cyber’s OT Firewall Lifecycle Management services help keep your networks up to date, protected, and operational. Our experts have decades of experience building and executing firewall management programs customized to factory environments, corporate standards, and regulatory criteria.
What We Offer
decades of hands-on experience
- Technology changes and technology refreshes
- Requirement-gathering and solution integration
- Incorporation of NextGen firewall capabilities as desired
- Alignment with corporate standards and rule clean-up
- Develop “depot strategy” to reduce risk with legacy platforms
- Deployment Engineering and Full Program Management
The Firewall Lifecycle
Firewall Lifecycle Management for OT involves all stages from the initial deployment to the eventual decommissioning.
Planning and Design
We assess your security needs and outline best practices for your firewall architecture, including the integration of logging solutions and multifactor user authentication protocols (MFA), incorporation of active directory (AD), and reduction of legacy platform risks. Our deployment engineering services provide hands-on support during the implementation of your new program.
Monitoring and Management
Post-deployment, we continue to monitor the firewall to ensure effectiveness and efficiency and adapt to changes in security standards or the network environment. This includes monitoring network traffic and analyzing logs for security issues.
Maintenance and Updates
Our team stays on top of technological changes and refreshes to pinpoint potential weaknesses as they appear in your firewall. Implementing necessary updates and patches and upgrading old technology helps to ensure your network protection aligns with corporate and industry standards.
We offer full firewall lifecycle management for ICS and can employ NextGen capabilities per your organization’s requirements.
OT Firewall Lifecycle Management Services with LeveL5Cyber
LeveL5Cyber offers necessary OT Firewall Lifecycle Management services for critical industries such as chemical manufacturing, pharmaceutical and healthcare, agriculture, and finance. Contact us for assistance with refreshing your existing firewalls or with building new ones today.
Frequently Asked Questions
decades of hands-on experience
in cybersecurity
Organizations that have already taken steps to segment their manufacturing environments may realize that firewall hardware does not have the same long life expectancy that some traditional OT assets have. Similarly, firewall vendors generally don't support platforms in perpetuity either. So what happens at the end of that roughly 4-6 year lifespan? As if the cyber threats that organizations face weren't enough, old and unsupported firewalls pose a significant risk of a different nature. What happens if there is a hardware failure and there is no replacement available? And what is the overhead on the organization, and the risk, to replace hundreds of firewalls that are nearing the end of their support - before that support contract expires? LeveL5Cyber specializes in global programs of this nature including firewall refreshes, regardless of the platform or vendor, as well as implementing new firewalls for organizations that may not have begun their segmentation journey yet.
Operational Technology (OT) firewall lifecycle management is essential to any enterprise cybersecurity program. This process includes planning, designing, implementing, maintaining, and monitoring firewall solutions in an industrial environment to ensure operational security and business continuity. OT firewalls help to protect against cyber-attacks, prevent unauthorized access, and secure industrial processes.
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.
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
Operational Technology (OT) Firewall Lifecycle Management is key to a mature cybersecurity program. Our team at LeveL5Cyber has decades of hand-on experience successfully managing complex firewall projects for F500 companies from start to finish. We can help design and implement solutions that meet business-specific requirements.
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