As cyber security risks to industrial networks increase in both frequency and sophistication, so to do the costs and complexity associated with critical mitigation activities required to protect digital plant assets and ensure reliable and resilient industrial operations. In fact, patch management costs alone can exceed tens of millions of dollars per year for large industrial operations, which is an unacceptable cost. Unfortunately, traditional network security infrastructure, such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems, are often incapable of adapting and evolving to specific cyber threats to control systems because they simply do not have the right information or required technical capabilities - resulting in the continued necessity for plant operators to manually patch digital assets.
By leveraging the proprietary data in Delphi™, the world’s largest database of industrial system vulnerabilities, Wurldtech has created a solution specifically designed to help reduce the cost and complexity of mitigation activities for process control networks by integrating specific vulnerability intelligence into common security enforcement devices such as firewalls and intrusion detections systems. This allows common IT infrastructure to be tailored for industrial network environments and continuously updated with specific rule-sets and signatures, protecting control systems immediately, substantially reducing the frequency of patching activities and reducing overall costs. This update and support service is called AchillesINSIDE™.
The first AchillesINSIDE™ Smart Firewall solution will be launched shortly. Please contact us for more information.