Securing Critical Infrastructure for Government and Utilities

Critical infrastructure consists of utility companies, energy companies, and other organizations (and their equipment) needed for the processing and transportation of energy and critical resources that keep nationwide and international systems, both IT and OT (operational technology), running. In addition to contributors to the power grid, critical infrastructure includes railroads, highways, bridges, trucking, aviation, airports, and other means and components of transportation and shipping. Bridges, canals, dams, reservoirs, hydroelectric plants and the chemical sector are all pieces. The critical infrastructure segment also includes the telecom industry (cable and wireless networks), which is responsible for the transmission of voice and data service and broadcast support of emergency frequencies, as well as non-government organizations providing systems that support the architecture. These all make up the backbone of the critical infrastructure.

These industries are highly regulated and demand defense-grade security based on zero trust architectures. One need look no farther than the recent ransomware hack of Colonial Pipeline to understand the interruptions, inconveniences, and disruptive impact of security breaches. For any provider of critical infrastructure (including data communications), strong cybersecurity and secure process management are paramount.

Government Compliance for Critical Infrastructure

To serve the critical infrastructure, your systems and data need to be secure, and this security bears measurement and scrutiny. For this, there’s NERC CIP, 10 CFR 73.54, CISA, FISMA, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, FIPS, FedRAMP, CFATS, GDPR, and a whole lot more.

Why comply the hard way each and every time, when the flexible open source based Atomicorp endpoint and cloud workload protection solution is pre-designed for hybrid public and private network use and compliance?

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Cloud Compliance Tools: Where the Cloud Comes In.

The cloud is an essential part of business-transformational network modernization and the associated efficiencies, and Atomicorp provides multicloud security and compliance to protect that investment. Whether you’re running services over hosted Amazon, Google or Microsoft SaaS, IaaS, or PaaS, Atomicorp provides the secure cloud APIs, data protection and segmentation, and audit control mechanisms required to comply with regulations such as 10 CFR 73.54 and NERC CIP. A chief component of this security and compliance solution is file integrity monitoring (FIM). FIM is critical to answering the most important question when something happens: What changed? Are you able to capture, report and resolve that? Find out how FIM can optimize your security and drive compliance with standards and regulations such as NERC CIP, 10 CFR 73.54, CFATS, and others.

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Zero Trust for Critical Infrastructure

Zero trust is an approach that assumes no connection point in a computing network is secure. It starts with the concept of least privilege and then, based on prioritization and rules, provides clearance for the most assured and authenticated connecting devices and identities. Define your computing architecture and then secure it with zero trust endpoint-based security agents in an advanced virtual firewall coating. Only give access to trusted recipients and in that exchange only provide that which is needed. Read the zero trust secure access service edge (SASE) and cloud workload whitepaper.

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Security for OT as Well as Legacy Systems

And for the critical infrastructure, remember it’s not just an information technology (IT) environment; it’s an operational technology (OT) landscape as well. A critical infrastructure security solution must serve IT (data systems only) and OT (any equipment with an operating system that can take instructions from elsewhere), including bare metal server deployments. For this, Atomicorp provides defense grade security for Linux, Windows, Mac, and legacy systems such as HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, OpenVMS, and many more.
Our experts and open source-based solution is versatile. Ask us if we can support your OS of choice.

Strong and Versatile Endpoint Protection and Response

But the modern infrastructure we must leverage isn’t always our own, as most organizations need to connect to the Internet and harness the prebuilt and distributive powers of the cloud. Get security support for your OT systems and equally critical information technology (IT) systems. Mandatory to stay safe in today’s hybrid public/private computer networking infrastructure are strong and smart detection, and rules and capabilities governing response to an untrusted network or source, including air gapping.
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Atomicorp WAF (web application firewall) provides advanced protection against today’s biggest threats, virtual patches for the latest vulnerabilities in web applications, data loss protection, brute force attack protection, and more. It provides the next generation in web security.
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Atomic Protector, an intrusion detection and response system, provides endpoint and workload protection across your computing architecture and cloud access points. It’s endpoint security and lateral protection, both north-south and east-west protection. It is a defense-in-depth approach where you’re putting multiple barriers in front of attackers and not only securing your end points and cloud workloads, but also shoring up your lateral portals and processes, which can be hijacked and used for malicious purposes.
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Find out why FIM is so important in regulated and best practice industry standard security and compliance.
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