Protecting Connected Production Infrastructure with Identity-Based Security
Manufacturing & Industrial Systems Security
Reducing Complexity
Simplified security without complex VPNs or fragile firewall rules.
Strengthening Security
Identity-based Zero Trust access for industrial and operational systems.
Challenge: Manufacturing & Industrial Systems Security
Top cybersecurity challenges for manufacturing and industrial systems involve securing legacy Operational Technology (OT), defending against ransomware, and managing risks from increased device connectivity (IoT). Key threats include supply chain attacks, inadequate network segmentation, and human error which can halt production and compromise intellectual property.
Top Cybersecurity Challenges
- Legacy System Vulnerabilities: Many OT assets were designed decades ago without internet connectivity and lack modern security features. Patching these systems is difficult without causing significant production downtime.
- Ransomware & Operational Downtime: Manufacturing is a top target for ransomware intended to paralyze production and extort, causing catastrophic and costly downtime.
- IT/OT Convergence & Network Segmentation: The integration of IT systems with OT, along with flat networks, allows attacks to spread easily from office networks to the factory floor.
- Human Error and Phishing: Phishing remains a primary attack vector, with over 90% of incidents, including those targeting admin credentials or delivering malware, originating from deceptive emails.
Solution: Enabling Secure Access at Scale
Cybersecurity Operations Infrastructure (CSOI) enables organizations to secure manufacturing and industrial infrastructure using identity based Zero Trust architecture. Instead of relying on network location or perimeter defenses, CSOI establishes secure encrypted communication between authorized systems using cryptographic identity.
Every device, system, and user must authenticate and be explicitly authorized before communication occurs. This approach allows industrial organizations to tightly control how production systems communicate while maintaining operational flexibility across facilities, suppliers, and service providers. By enforcing identity-based communication policies, CSOI significantly reduces the risk of unauthorized access and lateral movement across inter-connected industrial environments.
Ease of Deployment
Manufacturing environments cannot tolerate extended downtime or disruptive infrastructure changes. CSOI is designed to deploy over the top of existing networks without requiring rip-and-replace upgrades or major infrastructure redesigns.
Built on a Software-Defined Wide Area Network (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 plants, operations centers, data centers, and cloud platforms without interrupting production operations.
Because policies follow cryptographic identity rather than physical network location, organizations can securely support centralized monitoring teams, remote engineers, and third-party service providers while maintaining strong access control and consistent security across industrial infrastructure.
Cybersecurity Operations Infrastructure
CSOI is built to manage complex manufacturing and industrial networks spanning production facilities, centralized operations environments, public cloud platforms, private infrastructure, and hybrid architectures. It creates a common secure networking architecture capable of protecting both modern and legacy systems across the industrial operations landscape.
With CSOI’s Zero Trust network architecture, organizations can significantly reduce their attack surface while improving the speed of threat mitigation, access revocation, and system quarantine when suspicious activity occurs.
- Easily add and remove network access
- No need to rip and replace existing infrastructure
- Cost savings from simplifying network management
- Protect legacy operational systems without requiring internal firewall support
- Microsegmentation to prevent east-west movement
- Policy-based control over what external resources protected systems can communicate with
