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Put OT cyber threats in context—detect, triage, and respond to events leveraging the processes already in place for your IT threats.

Develop OT Cyber Skills to Protect Operations 

Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) may share similar technologies running on similar operating systems, network connections, and digital architectures, but industrial working environments are very different than IT. Industrial infrastructure operates specialized machinery with longer lifecycles than IT equipment, and are heavily engineered to fulfill the core functions of the business – producing electricity, manufacturing products, transporting products. The key focus is on continuous operations.  

Business continuity requirements are orders of magnitude more stringent, plus the additional elements of physical safety considerations and regulatory obligations. Driving effective convergence of OT/IT by integrating OT-smarts into IT security infrastructure and processes requires extremely deep domain expertise from operators who oversee those processes. 

ot vulnerability managementMost vulnerability disclosures are written with IT in mind and don’t properly characterize the risks to ICS/OT environments. Recommendations to patch are common, which is impractical in continuously running operations. Vulnerability management requires alternatives to patching and accurate risk information to be effectives in industrial environments.

                 Vulnerability Management

incident response planIsolating a laptop, cutting a connection to a server – those are common first responses to an IT incident. But shutting down industrial operations too quickly is unsafe, and doing so at all has downstream consequences on the people who rely on them. The toolkit for responding to ICS/OT incidents must include a specialized plan, tools, and expertise.
ICS/OT Incident Response

network monitoringICS/OT environments once operated in isolation with inherent trust between devices. Today, network communications are specialized to the equipment and operate at the edge of capacity. Malformed queries, excess traffic, or bad command syntax cause systems to freeze or shut down. IT solutions won’t speak the right language or meet the availability requirements of high-stakes ICS/OT environments.
                   Asset Visibility

threatsTechniques used to compromise IT networks won’t necessarily work in ICS/OT networks. Adversaries targeting electric grids, oil and gas pipelines, and manufacturing plants behave much differently and demonstrate sophisticated capabilities, like the PIPEDREAM malware attack framework. Knowing what adversaries to watch out for and how they behave in ICS/OT environments is the secret to spotting and stopping threats before they have an impact.
                  Threat Groups

TAP/Packet Broker/Traffic AggregatorDragos is represented by the largest and most experienced team of ICS/OT security practitioners – that includes threat hunters, researchers, and incident responders – to deliver the Dragos Platform, build OT security programs, and gather the intelligence on ICS/OT-specific threat groups, TTPs, and vulnerabilities.

The Dragos Platform provides visibility of OT threats across your entire security organization. 
  • Asset discovery, inventory, and profiles to understand and track the ICS/OT attack surface 
  •  The most effective behavior-based threat detection to identify real threats as validated by MITRE ATT&CK for ICS  
  •  Risk-weighted vulnerability scoring with prioritization and risk mitigation practical for ICS/OT systems  
  • Expert response playbooks tailored to threat scenarios for rapid event investigation
Threat Detection Animated
Incident Response with the Dragos Platform
Industrial cybersecurity experts to help with incident response, evaluate architecture, and advance your OT security program.
  • Expert responders to refine incident response plans, test those plans, and respond on those worst days when you need expert assistance to investigate and resolve incidents 
  • Cyber industrial consultants to perform penetration tests, assess architecture and vulnerabilities, and to baseline and help you create a plan to mature your program
Dragos WorldView Threat Intelligence delivers situational awareness into adversary activity and vulnerabilities that impact industrial sectors.
  • Adversary research details the capabilities used to execute attacks in ICS/OT environments, and strategic intelligence reports cover regional and industry sector risks  
  • Indicators of compromise (IOC) feeds to enhance SOC operations and investigations 
  • Lab-tested malware and vulnerability analysis provides insight into the OT impact and guidance on how to mitigate and respond

Five Critical Controls for CS/OT Cybersecurity

Your OT Cybersecurity Requirements 

It doesn’t make sense to copy and paste enterprise cybersecurity strategies that don’t account for what’s important to ICS asset owners and defenders.  

The SANS Institute has developed five critical controls for OT cybersecurity to cover the basic requirements for all industrial organizations to use for alignment across IT and OT security teams. 

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Start with the Five Critical Controls for ICS/OT Cybersecurity

Driving Convergence of OT with IT Security Infrastructure 

OT-specific expertise can help drive convergence of systems and processes that streamlines operation and security. From SIEMs to firewalls and endpoint technology, integration of the two worlds is key to driving effective protection and operational efficiency.

Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP)

Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP)

WorldView reports data on industrial adversaries, campaigns, IOCs & TTPs available via portal, email, API, & STIX.

Endpoint Security

Endpoint Security

Dragos OT device profiles, Dragos OT detections integrate into EDR  to block malicious activity 

Service Management 

Service Management 

Integrates Dragos asset inventory & vulnerabilities to gain complete asset view across IT/OT estate.

SIEM/SOAR

SIEM/SOAR 

Dragos integrates OT alerts, forensic data, & IOCs to simplify SOC triage & streamline investigations.  

firewall

Firewall 

Dragos OT device inventory for firewall policy, Dragos threat detection notifies firewall to isolate devices. Monitoring helps validate firewall policies.

vuln management

TAP/Packet Broker/Traffic Aggregator

Send data to Dragos to simplify deployment & hardware requirements. EDR information enhances   

Lessons Learned from the Front Lines

Dragos tracked 28% more ransomware groups impacting OT in 2023.
Year in Review 2023
Dragos 2023 ot cybersecurity year in review report

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