Cybersecurity Solutions for Energy, Utilities, and Power

As the energy, utilities, and power sectors face increasing attacks, Fortra pushes back with the cybersecurity solutions that can keep these resources online. 

Overview of Cybersecurity for the Energy, Utilities, and Power Sector

Ten years ago, cyberwarfare was a looming, theoretical, “on the horizon” type of threat. Now, we see its impact creep into daily headlines, from geopolitical tensions abroad to stories of foreign nation-state actors infiltrating our critical infrastructure. Essential sectors like energy and utilities cannot lean on the minimum level of defense to avoid the massive target now squarely upon their backs. Threat actors motivated by financial gain, hacktivist causes, and state-sponsored espionage won’t pull punches when it comes to hitting societies where it hurts. That’s why Fortra’s arsenal of defense-ready solutions backs the power industry and other critical sectors like energy and utilities, keeping them online and hardening them against today’s modern attacks. Recent events have proved that critical infrastructure cybersecurity measures must be strong and standardized to avoid leaving weak spots for attackers to exploit. One weak link in the chain, whether it be in a water utility or major national oil pipeline, can and will be found. 

Benefits of Cybersecurity in Energy & Utilities Organizations

Practice against today's cyberwarfare techniques

Expose your utilities plant to the kind of advanced threats it will face in real-world attacks, from APTs to polymorphic malware and more.

Secure against AI-driven threats

Catch behavioral anomalies in your network and in your inbox with the latest in behavioral-driven detection technology. Its utilities cybersecurity that stays ahead of the industry curve.

Maintain compliance in a highly regulated landscape

Don’t leave energy and utilities plants exposed to failed audits, revoked licensure, contract disqualification, or ransomware actors holding a compliance call-out over your head. 

Protect the public interest

Hold the line against nation-state attackers and maintain societal stability by making sure essential services don’t go offline.

Scale to the modern era

Secure anything from legacy architecture to hybrid and cloud-native environments with energy and utilities cybersecurity solutions designed to bridge the gap. 

Regulatory Frameworks and Compliance Requirements for Energy & Utilities

An old industry adage states that compliance doesn’t equal security. In some cases, that’s true. However, those standards have gotten a lot better as major energy and utilities stakeholders have come together in recent years to address the criticality of cyber defense given the common threats of cyber espionage, nation-state attacks, and advanced technological threats. To this day, utilities cybersecurity standards continue to improve, and we can anticipate waves of additional regulation in coming years.

Compliance Frameworks

To avoid crippling attacks to the power industry or energy and utilities sectors, regulatory frameworks and guidelines were put in place. The following list is not comprehensive, only highlighting several cybersecurity standards required within the U.S. energy, utilities, and power sectors.

Fortra Solutions for Energy & Utilities Organizations

Vulnerability Management

Find and fix exploitable vulnerabilities within IT and OT infrastructure.

Integrity & Compliance Monitoring

Ensure that security controls remain compliant and properly configured over time, despite updates and changes to energy, utilities, and power systems or applications.

Email Security

Protect your utility from falling victim to sophisticated social engineering scams seeking to gain access to critical services.

Data Protection

Protect intellectual property, systems data, plant blueprints and more from falling into the wrong hands.

Offensive Security

Don’t stop at NERC CIP. Make sure compliance means security by putting your utility through the ultimate real-world test.

Managed XDR

Short staffed? Combine in-house expertise with the best in managed detection and response for the kind of 24/7/365 monitoring critical infrastructure requires.

Compliance

Never fear another NERC CIP audit again. Find automated solutions to replace old manual methods and ease compliance with custom, industry-standard solutions.

Security Awareness Training

Make sure every employee knows how to handle sensitive data in a digital environment, because no utility is immune to compliance blunders and attackers always look for the weakest link.