Flow-based StealthWatch for SCADA Compliance, Security and Control
Lancope’s StealthWatch unifies flow-based security, network and application performance monitoring to deliver visibility across physical and virtual networks. The system eliminates network blind spots and reduces total network and security management costs. Flow collection and analysis technologies like StealthWatch fill in the gaps where traditional network and security technologies leave off, dramatically reducing the time from problem onset to resolution and keeping utilities/energy networks secure and reliable.
SCADA compliance requires that proper controls are put in place to minimize risks associated with industrial control systems, which monitor and control processes for delivering critical resources such as electric power, water, oil and gas. It is recognized that a breakdown of SCADA monitoring and control capabilities could cause large-scale blackouts and also affect other critical infrastructure such as oil and natural gas production, refinery operations, water treatment, wastewater collection and pipeline transport systems.
StealthWatch helps demonstrate SCADA compliance by:
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Identifying connections to the SCADA network
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Auditing firewall policies to quickly identify misconfigurations that could compromise access to the SCADA network
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Profiling hosts for violations of security policies
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Continuously and agentlessly monitoring hosts and the network to identify intrusions, oftentimes not detectable by traditional signature-based security devices
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Identifying systems not patched correctly
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Providing a one-console view of all network activity needed to diagnose and mitigate security threats as well as provide metrics for network provisioning
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Helping to optimize links
