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Industrial Defender Launches Managed Services to Protect Critical Infrastructure Endpoints

Industrial Defender, a provider of security and compliance solutions for automation systems, today announced new Managed Security Services for Automation Systems, targeting potential customers in critical infrastructure sectors, including utilities, chemical, water, oil and gas.

Industrial Defender, a provider of security and compliance solutions for automation systems, today announced new Managed Security Services for Automation Systems, targeting potential customers in critical infrastructure sectors, including utilities, chemical, water, oil and gas.

Industrial Defender LogoAs part of what the company calls its “Sustainability Services portfolio,” the new continuous monitoring and management services lets critical infrastructure operators utilize Industrial Defender’s expertise in protecting endpoints in critical infrastructure environments.

Through its managed service offerings, Industrial Defender helps customers protect critical assets, including remote terminal units (RTUs), programmable logic controllers (PLCs), intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), and human-machine interfaces (HMIs), while maintaining full administrative control of every device.

“The functions of industrial devices are specific and the implications of making changes may be significant,” said Brian Ahern, president and CEO of Industrial Defender. “To effectively secure an automation environment requires a deep understanding of how industrial endpoints operate and the role they play in supporting the organization’s requirements. These unique services allow subscribers to leverage our expertise which enables customers to ensure their essential resources maintain a focus on driving operational excellence.”

Monitor solution: Industrial Defender’s integrated Monitor technology solution delivers security event management and automation system agent technology. Through managed services for this solution, Industrial Defender provides:

• Monitoring security, application and system events across industrial endpoints

• Monitoring security events originating via network intrusion detection systems

• Monitoring health and status of industrial endpoints on an ongoing basis

• Identifying, triaging and escalating high priority events to mitigate potential risk

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Management Solution: Industrial Defender’s Manage technology solution provides security event management, compliance management and automation system agent technology. Managed services for this solution include all capabilities described under the Monitor solution, plus:

• Management of compliance for industrial endpoints

• Monitoring and management of critical system attributes such as configurations, patch status, and user accounts, among others

• Generating compliance reports; delivering reports; managing report subscriptions

• Identification and reporting of configuration deviations from customer baselines, including installed applications, patch levels, ports and services

Protection Solution: Industrial Defender’s Protect technology solution delivers host intrusion prevention, and, optionally, unified threat management/firewall, alongside security management and compliance management. Through managed services for this solution, Industrial Defender provides all services described under the Monitor and Manage solutions, as well as:

• Monitoring events originating from host intrusion prevention system

• Managing changes to the Industrial Defender solution

• Maintaining release level patches of the solution

• Administering user accounts within the solution

• Maintaining the initial whitelist policy, as well as ongoing whitelist policy updates

• Updating endpoint policies associated with whitelisting

• Removing unauthorized applications from whitelisted endpoints

• Ongoing management and tuning of NIDS signatures

Industrial Defender’s Managed Security Services for Automation Systems are available immediately.

Foxborough, Massachusetts based Industrial Defender counts 350 companies in 21 countries as customers.

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For more than 15 years, Mike Lennon has been closely monitoring the threat landscape and analyzing trends in the National Security and enterprise cybersecurity space. In his role at SecurityWeek, he oversees the editorial direction of the publication and is founder and director of several leading cybersecurity industry conferences around the world.

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