OT SECURITY

CYBERSECURITY CONSULTING SERVICES

PREVENT COSTLY INCIDENTS AND DOWNTIME ASSOCIATED WITH CYBERATTACKS

Expand Your Team's Cybersecurity Capabilities

SECURITY

Security review, design, and implementation consulting

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

Vulnerability management advisory services and buildouts

SYSTEM

System, infrastructure, and asset hardening

INCIDENT

Incident response planning

BENEFITS OF FOXGUARD

OT Security Services

Meet Your Organization's OT Security Objectives

Our Foxguard OT cybersecurity consultant can help you achieve your specific organizational goals, including:

Augment your team with a trained OT Security consultant.
Systematically improve your OT Security posture to ensure uptime.
Quickly identify OT Security gaps.
Securely transfer critical, sensitive data.
Locate and download the appropriate OT Security patches.
Facilitate organizational awareness of vulnerabilities and risks.
Impartial third-party assessment for leaders, investors, and auditors.
“Harden” your system (i.e., reduce or eliminate potential cyberattacks).

Align With All Specifications and Standards

Our OT Security services incorporate legal requirements, OT Security guidance, industry best practices, and your enterprise requirements. We are intimately familiar with industry compliance for cybersecurity, frameworks for:

NERC CIP requirements for the bulk electric system (BES)
NEI / NRC regulations and endorsements (nuclear power plants)
NIST for OT Security (critical manufacturing and others)
TSA rail, aircraft, and pipeline security directives
FAR and DFARS regulations

OPERATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

Our OT Cybersecurity Consultants Focus on Operational Technology

Coordination across the enterprise

Foxguard focuses on your OT systems, but we also understand that the security of the surrounding IT systems is vital to your OT program’s success. Ideally, the approach to your OT cybersecurity program will be coordinated with your IT security program, thereby providing a consistency between the two to minimize demands on employees working in OT.

Create a Consistent OT Cybersecurity Posture

Foxguard can recommend additional protections between the two environments to enable IT and OT vulnerability management programs to execute independently and create a consistent OT cybersecurity posture.

Address Important IT/OT Differences

However, your OT program must also address important differences between the two environments. Careful planning is critical regarding remediation changes, patching computers, or updating firmware to avoid operational disruption.

PROGRAMMATIC SERVICES

We offer programmatic asset inventory and patch management solutions

See how we implement industry compliance in all we do.

SECURITY REVIEW, DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION ADVISORY

We review your OT cybersecurity program and helps align it to industry standards

We work with strategic partners and OEMs to implement the optimal cyber controls safely and reliably for your organization.

REVIEW YOUR CURRENT OT CYBERSECURITY PROGRAM

Identify security-related issues according to industry/compliance standards.
Discover and determine levels of risk associated with these issues.
Recommend and discusses risk mitigation for gaps and vulnerabilities

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT YOUR SECURE ARCHITECTURE

We can then design and implement a secure architecture hosted on the cloud, on-premises, or a hybrid. This includes a design review to protect sensitive data and requires a combination of people, processes, policies, and technologies.

DESIGN REQUIREMENTS

At a minimum, the design will meet the following requirements:

Minimize the attack surface area: install barriers that block attackers.
Account for the principle of least privilege (POLP): allow only enough access to perform the required job.
Apply the defense principle: focus on delivering risk-based, justifiable services specific to your organization.
Filter untrusted services: keep intruders out.
Ensure separation of duty (SOD): no user has enough privileges to misuse the system independently.
Avoid security by obscurity (STO): don’t rely on secrecy and hidden assets or systems to protect your systems.

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT ADVISORY SERVICES

A vulnerability management program helps identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities in OT systems and networks

This is crucial for ensuring cyber resilience of critical infrastructure.

HOW OUR OT CYBERSECURITY CONSULTANTS MANAGE VULNERABILITIES

Vulnerability Management is an ongoing process that:

Detects OT Security flaws or vulnerabilities
Identifies relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
Evaluates risk against compliance standards.
Defines actionable vulnerabilities and prioritizes them.
Weighs OT Security threats against operational concerns
Documents security processes and standards.
Results in a specific plan of action (POAM)

Our OT Security consultant can walk your organization through the entire process.

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT, PROGRAM BUILDOUT, AND IMPLEMENTATION

Change Management Decisions
We aim to get it “just right.” We provide sufficient information to facilitate quick, informed decisions without drowning your decision-making in duplicative or irrelevant information.

Vulnerability management intelligence supports the following steps:

Identifying cyber vulnerability across business and operational units (asset risk analysis).
Creating a plan of action for implementing appropriate security controls
Providing patch intelligence and patch acquisition.
Deploying patches when appropriate.
Document exceptions for vulnerabilities that cannot be patched.
Identify alternative mitigation actions to patching

PENETRATION TESTING

Foxguard Offers Cyber Penetration Testing Services

to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses in an organization’s networks, infrastructure, and systems by safely trying to exploit vulnerabilities.

How We Work With You to Identify Vulnerabilities

Together, we will define a robust and safe program for your OT environment. We use automated and manual technologies to perform penetration tests.

Our Reporting

We then present security vulnerability data to your organization. The final report discloses all data, including findings and suggested mitigation strategies.

Our Process

Our OT cybersecurity consultants:

Create an authentic simulation of what attackers will see.
Expose vulnerabilities.
Highlight system or response process strengths.
Create a feedback loop for stakeholders to identify and upgrade systems.
Suggest budget allocation and prioritization based on findings.
Provide an external, objective security expert’s perspective.

SYSTEM, INFRASTRUCTURE, NETWORK AND ASSET HARDENING

Rduce Vulnerabilities in Systems, Infrastructure, Networks, and Assets

Foxguard provides tools, techniques, and best practices coupled with our skilled experts to reduce vulnerabilities in systems, infrastructure, networks, and assets.

Our Approach

We take a systematic approach to identify, close, and control security vulnerabilities in your operational environment. Hardening your systems, infrastructure, networks, and assets reduces the attack surface making it harder for malicious actors to compromise.

What We Do

Remove known risks at a system level.
Minimize attack surface area.
Eliminate actual and potential attack vectors.
Remove and control unused or legacy access points.
Enhance system and process performance.

INCIDENT RESPONSE PLANNING

System, Infrastructure, Network, and Asset Hardening

Foxguard offers services to assess cyber incident response plans to help organizations prepare, respond, and recover from security incidents.

Our Services

Our service includes the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) phases for preparation, and detection and analysis via tabletop exercises, training, and choice of system and network security controls. Your organization will be better equipped to mitigate security incidents

Your Results

As a result of the planning, your organization will:

Reduce downtime.
Mitigate damages.
Remain compliant with security protocols.
Maintain stakeholder and public trust.

SIX REASONS TO TRUST FOXGUARD

Six Reasons to Rely on Foxguard OT Cybersecurity Consulting

Our cybersecurity consultants round out a robust tool and experience set. You’ll discover that we offer the following advantages:

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE EXPERIENCE

20+ years supporting customers in critical infrastructure.

OT ACUMEN

We understand availability of the systems is key to operational uptime.

EXPERTISE IN HARDENING SYSTEMS

Reducing your attack surface reduces your risk of downtime.

COMPLIANCE PROFICIENCY

Experts in NIST security controls, industry regulations and compliance.

EXPAND YOUR TEAM'S BANDWIDTH

Keep your team focused on operations and output.

ROBUST RESOURCES

A robust partner ecosystem and outstanding technology and systems integration team for comprehensive solutions to your problems.

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