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SecureSmart™ EnergyDefender​

Comprehensive critical infrastructure and industrial control systems defense

EnergyDefender, part of our SecureSmart™ solution line, detects, troubleshoots and remediates supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and telecom issues to protect systems before operations are impacted. Blending continuous monitoring, cybersecurity and secondary operations systems into a single solution, EnergyDefender enables operators to monitor the cyber health, performance and trustworthiness of energy management system (EMS) and SCADA systems and continue operations if primary system telemetry is interrupted. 
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How it works

SecureSmart EnergyDefender deploys patented sensors in traditional control networks and wireless field networks to passively intercept control traffic and generate independent ground-truth telemetry. Intelligent applications perform deep-packet analysis, time series traffic analysis, protocol and session state analysis, endpoint behavioral analysis and telemetry consistency analysis of multiple traffic streams from physical to application layers. 
 
EnergyDefender uses artificial intelligence and probabilistic reasoning to provide a grid state inferencing capability supporting power and black start recovery modeling with root cause analysis. Employing Bayesian network techniques, combined with grid physics models, EnergyDefender accounts for partial information and incomplete power grid sensing to capture the effects of cyber-related outages.  
 
A secondary human-machine interface provides independent present-state conditions based on independent telemetry sensors and consistency analysis to facilitate utility decision-making even when EMS or primary telemetry is unavailable. ​
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Features

Monitoring and analysis capabilities

  • Real-time key performance indicator and asset readiness dashboards monitor primary telemetry and asset integrity 
  • Traffic and protocol analysis tracks EMS / SCADA communications sessions and detects irregularities to uncover hidden problems, misreporting and configuration errors 
  • Advanced grid-state analysis technology detects inconsistencies in real-time energy measurements—​via Bayesian Inferencing and circuit logic deduction logic--and performs automated telemetry reconciliation across multiple controllers and substations 
  • Remote automated binary integrity and configuration scanning technology evaluates and attests to the integrity of protection system relays and RTUs 
  • Remote automated point map validation and RTU point translation analysis technology evaluates and attests to end to end DNP3 control element reporting  
  • Continuous SCADA traffic capture and a historical traffic repository enable troubleshooting, system tuning and forensics similar to an energy historian ​

Intervention capabilities

  • A relay recovery kit for emergency recovery of severely damaged relays and supply chain attacks  
  • Binary forensics analysis capabilities to perform code analysis on RTUs and protection of relay firmware  
  • Novel RTU surrogate technology provides secondary or emergency RTU functions to replace primary RTUs that have failed or have been maliciously disabled ​
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Advantages

  • Detects, diagnoses and troubleshoots problems in SCADA, distribution automation (DA) and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) field systems to provide daily operations benefit  
  • Improves system operation, optimizes communication performance and increases availability 
  • Corroborates various sources of telemetry to identify inconsistencies and perform anomaly root cause analysis for cybersecurity 
  • Enables emergency operations when primary SCADA and EMS are down  
  • Defends utilities against sophisticated protective relay, remote terminal unit (RTU) and automation controller cyberattacks  
  • Provides powerful capabilities beyond vendor tools for an effective response / recovery from targeted industrial control systems (ICS) cyberattacks​ ​
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SecureSmart™ solution line:​
  • Continuous monitoring as a service (CMaaS): real-time cyber defense for critical infrastructure, field area networks, energy systems and smart cities
  • ​Cyber emissions monitor: anomaly detection based on non-intrusive monitoring of unintentional RF emissions
  • Jolt: protection against sophisticated power grid attacks via intelligent telemetry defense
  • ProtocolPatroller: industry’s first ICS cybersecurity monitoring and anomaly detection solution for protocol protection
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