Enabling Secure Infrastructure at Scale
Energy & Utility Systems Security
Less Complexity
Simplified management without brittle VPN architectures or complex firewall rule sets.
Stronger Security
Built-in identity-based protection aligned with Zero Trust principles for critical infrastructure.
Challenge: Securing Power Generation & Distribution Networks
Power generation plants, substations, SCADA systems, and distribution controls were historically isolated environments. As connectivity expanded to support remote operations, data aggregation, and cloud services, these systems were connected to broader networks without being architected for modern cyber threats. Legacy VPNs, ACLs, routing rules, and firewall policies create operational overhead and often expand exposure rather than reduce it. When perimeter defenses fail, flat network designs allow attackers to move laterally across IT and OT systems with unfettered access to public non-organizational assets, increasing operational risk and recovery time. In energy environments where uptime and safety are paramount, traditional perimeter-based security models are no longer sufficient.
Solution: Enabling Secure Access at Scale
CSOI enables zero-trust security and mobility for energy and utility environments without requiring rip-and-replace upgrades. By leveraging identity-defined networking and cryptographic host authentication, CSOI replaces implicit IP-based trust with explicit, policy-driven access control.
CSOI delivers secure, encrypted access to SCADA devices, substations, generation facilities, analytics platforms, and cloud systems from anywhere in the world. Create simple, easily segmented access policies across IT and OT assets while maintaining compliance with federal cybersecurity directives and infrastructure protection mandates. With point-and-click simplicity, manage access between devices without complex ACLs, routing rules, or firewall configurations. Provision secure encrypted connectivity between anything, anywhere, securely and efficiently.
Ease of Deployment
Developed with energy providers and utility districts of all sizes in mind, CSOI delivers enterprise-wide cyber protection and security monitoring without compromising network integrity or operational continuity. Built on a Software-Defined Wide Area Network / Perimeter (SD-WAN) and Identity-Defined Networking (IDN) architecture, CSOI integrates networking and security into a unified platform that is topology, protocol, and hypervisor agnostic.
Deployments can be staged across generation sites, substations, field assets, and cloud systems without extended downtime. Policies follow cryptographic identity rather than network location, allowing secure mobility for field technicians, remote engineers, vendor technicians, and monitoring systems. CSOI enables rapid adaptation to workload shifts, infrastructure scaling, and evolving threat conditions while maintaining operational stability.
Cybersecurity Operations Infrastructure
CSOI is built to manage complex energy and utility networks spanning on-premises environments, remote substations, public cloud platforms, private infrastructure, and hybrid architectures. It creates a common secure networking architecture capable of protecting modern and legacy systems across the operational landscape.
With CSOI’s Zero Trust network architecture, energy organizations can reduce attack surface by up to 90 percent while improving time to mitigation, revocation, and quarantine by up to 25 percent.
- Easily add and remove network access
- No need to rip and replace existing infrastructure
- Cost savings from simplifying network management
- Protect legacy OT and SCADA devices without internal firewall support
- Microsegmentation to prevent east-west movement
- Policy based control over what public non-organization resources protected devices can communicate with
