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Utilities Sector Challenges

The utilities sector faces major cybersecurity challenges due to its critical role in national infrastructure. The convergence of IT and OT creates new vulnerabilities, making these systems prime targets for cyberattacks. To ensure uninterrupted service and safeguard critical infrastructure, utility security teams must strengthen their networks against sophisticated threats, as any breach could have widespread consequences.

Protection of Critical Infrastructure

Challenge: Utilities are a prime target for cyberattacks due to the potential impact on national security and public safety. A successful attack could disrupt essential services like electricity, water, and gas, leading to widespread consequences.

Seceon's Solution: Seceon’s aiSIEM and aiXDR solutions provide real-time monitoring and advanced threat detection to protect critical infrastructure. By leveraging AI and machine learning, Seceon’s solutions can detect and neutralize threats before they compromise essential services, ensuring the reliability and security of utility operations.

Legacy System Security Measures

Challenge: Many utilities rely on aging infrastructure and legacy systems vulnerable to cyberattacks due to outdated security measures, often lacking compatibility with modern cybersecurity tools, making them hard to protect.

Seceon's Solution: Seceon’s aiSIEM integrates seamlessly with legacy systems, offering advanced security without the need for extensive upgrades. The solution monitors and protects these older systems, identifying vulnerabilities and providing a crucial layer of defense to extend their secure operation and ensure compliance.

Compliance with Regulatory Standards

Challenge:Utilities must comply with stringent standards, like NERC CIP and various country-specific regulations, to protect critical infrastructure. Failure to meet these can lead to penalties and heightened cyberattack vulnerability.

Seceon's Solution: Seceon's aiXDR automates compliance reporting and monitoring, helping utilities meet regulatory requirements efficiently. The solution provides detailed audit trails and real-time visibility into compliance status, ensuring that all security controls are aligned with regulatory mandates for comprehensive risk management.

Defense Against Persistent Threats (APTs)

Challenge: Utilities are increasingly targeted by sophisticated APTs, often backed by nation-states or well-funded criminal organizations. These attacks are designed to infiltrate, persist, and cause maximum disruption.

Seceon's Solution: Seceon’s aiSIEM uses advanced threat intelligence and behavioral analytics to detect and respond to APTs. By continuously monitoring for unusual activities and employing predictive analytics, Seceon’s solutions can identify and thwart APTs before they can inflict serious damage.

Expanding Attack Surface with Digital Transformation

Challenge: The adoption of smart grids, IoT devices, and other digital technologies has expanded the attack surface for utilities, making them more vulnerable to cyberattacks.

Seceon's Solution: Seceon’s aiXDR provides comprehensive visibility across the expanded attack surface, monitoring everything from IoT devices to smart grid technologies. The solution detects and responds to threats in real-time, ensuring that digital transformation initiatives are secured against cyber risks with minimal operational impact.

Mitigating Insider Threats in Utilities

Challenge: Insider threats, whether malicious or accidental, pose a significant risk to utilities, potentially leading to disruptions in service or unauthorized access to critical systems.

Seceon's Solution: Seceon’s aiSIEM employs User Behavior Analytics (UBA) to detect and mitigate insider threats. By establishing a baseline of normal behavior, the system can quickly identify deviations that may indicate insider misuse, triggering alerts for immediate investigation and response to prevent potential security breaches proactively.

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Summary

By addressing these key challenges, Seceon’s solutions provide utilities with the tools they need to protect critical infrastructure, ensure regulatory compliance, and secure their operations against a growing array of cyber threats.

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Global Utilities Enterprise Case Study

A global integrated healthcare enterprise, in business for 55 years of businessand now employing 11,000 employees adopts Seceon’s aiSIEM platform. As a research-based pharmaceutical with R&D and global manufacturing of branded and generic formulations, new drug development research, and multiple specialty hospitals executed on its vision to improve their cybersecurity program.

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