Integrating Cybersecurity and Operations for Industrial Companies

Industrial companies face a delicate balancing act between driving operational efficiency and defending against cyber attacks. In nearly every industry segment, leaders are focused on streamlining processes and technologies, connecting more systems than ever before, and enabling rapid data sharing across the enterprise. But if you want to leverage the benefits of digitization, you’ll have to take on the risks, too – which are an ever-increasing attack surface and potentially a higher frequency of incidents.

The extent to which you can achieve digital transformation, enhance efficiency, boost productivity, and consequently increase revenue is constrained by your capacity to ensure the security of your environment.

That’s where Dragos can help. We understand the unique challenges of OT environments in the digital age, and our technology is built with productivity and security in mind.

Challenges Impacting Operations and Productivity

Dragos works with industrial companies around the world, and these challenges are nearly universal:

Increased Business Risk from Cybersecurity Threats: The rise of cyber threats, including ransomware, malware, and targeted attacks, poses significant risks to industrial operations. Protecting sensitive processes, operations data, and proprietary IP is paramount.
Pressure to Improve Operational Efficiency: Operational efficiency is a necessity for survival and growth. The integration of digital technologies, automation, data analytics, and real-time monitoring is indispensable to meet these demands.
Identifying Actionable Data: Industrial environments generate data at an unprecedented rate, leading to data silos and fragmentation. Ensuring data quality and integrity – and facilitating practical decision making – is a critical challenge.
Managing Compliance and Regulations: Achieving compliance while maintaining operational efficiency is an intricate task, and sometimes a moving target. To avoid disruption and downtime, you’ll need a proactive and real-world approach to cybersecurity governance.

The Dragos Advantage: Helping Industrial Companies Integrate Cybersecurity and Operations to Improve Security and Productivity

Dragos OT cybersecurity technology incorporates a holistic approach to address these challenges:

Comprehensive Asset Discovery: The Dragos Platform identifies and catalogs all assets within the industrial network, enabling proactive maintenance and reducing downtime.
Centralized Visibility: The Platform offers centralized visibility, allowing different departments to understand the overall operational landscape and identify anomalies that may affect productivity.
Data-Driven Decision Making: The platform collects data from various sources within industrial networks, ensuring holistic analysis and supporting risk assessments.
Vulnerability Management: Dragos continuously monitors the environment for vulnerabilities and potential threats, correcting and prioritizing guidance so you can remediate what actually matters. Cross-functional insights can help decision-makers understand the potential impact of threats on operations, so you can prioritize and allocate mitigation resources effectively.  
Threat Detection and Response: The Dragos Threat Intelligence team incorporates the latest behavior-based analytics into the Dragos Platform to continuously monitor your environment. You can see configuration, modeling, indicators, and threat detections from a single dashboard. View threat levels, prioritize by severity, and get in-depth alerts with full context mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK for ICS. 
Compliance and Reporting: The Dragos Platform helps industrial companies meet regulatory requirements with detailed reporting and compliance tools.
Collaboration Across Teams: Using a common interface and data repository, different departments can collaborate more effectively, enhancing the overall security and efficiency of processes.

By partnering with Dragos, industrial companies can expect:

Increased Security: Strengthened cybersecurity defenses protect critical infrastructure, reducing the risk of costly breaches.
Improved Operational Efficiency: Real-time visibility and advanced analytics help identify inefficiencies, leading to reduced downtime and increased productivity.
Enhanced Compliance: Simplified compliance management ensures adherence to industry-specific regulations, reducing the risk of fines and penalties.
Reduced Risk: Dragos expertise and proactive approach to cybersecurity reduce the risk of operational disruptions and reputational damage.

Are you ready to optimize your industrial operations? Download our solutions brief to discover how Dragos can help you integrate cybersecurity and operations. Then, click the button below to request a platform demo and take the first step toward a more secure and productive future.