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SecureSmart™ Jolt​

Protection against sophisticated power grid attacks via intelligent telemetry defense

Jolt is a state-of-the-art power analyzer for substation telemetry defense and part of our SecureSmart™ solution line. Jolt defends utility supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and industrial control systems (ICS) from complex attacks that corrupt substation protection relays, automation controllers, remote terminal units (RTU) and energy controllers.  

​Cyberattackers increasingly employ deceptive techniques to avoid detection. For example, they can use malware to penetrate the devices that monitor and manage the power grid and falsify the data they report or maliciously alter their configuration. Jolt detects these sophisticated protection and automation system compromises in individual and multi-substation environments. It applies smart analytics to validate real-time telemetry with circuit topology for rapid response and robust substation defense. Operating at both a substation level and a grid level, Jolt detects misbehaving controllers altered by code or data attacks to enable rapid localization of suspect devices and fast identification of the root cause of cyber-based disruptions.  ​
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How it works

Jolt extracts grid state information from control center and substation telemetry and applies the constraints of a physical energy model to detect telemetry inconsistencies and fraudulent devices. Its thorough analysis combines data and information from grid topology devices, underlying operations technology (OT) sensing and control devices, RTU, real-time automation controller (RTAC), energy management system and information technology communications devices.   

Unlike a traditional intrusion detection system or Layer 4 inspection device, Jolt interprets the energy measurements and reconciles the readings across multiple interconnected controllers and substations. Jolt uses consistency checks on telemetry data to verify that devices are not corrupted. Devices are awarded “trustworthiness” scores based on the consistent and inconsistent analyses in which they participate. ​​
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Features

  • A topology editor to construct one-line energy diagrams and SCADA reporting structure for measurement sources 
  • A state repository with standard data on measurement values and device states 
  • Power analytic algorithms to detect inconsistent states in the grid 
  • A probable cause analyzer to relate inconsistencies back to the infrastructure and to rank order suspicious OT devices  
  • A what-if capability to compare potential causes of grid disruption to expected values ​
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  • Finds inconsistencies in grid-state telemetry via reported values from local and remote sensors and out-of-band sources  
  • Intelligently analyzes and aggregates discrepancies to detect misreporting and configuration errors  
  • Combines grid telemetry with state-of-the-art power models to detect suspect devices and neutralize threats 
  • Leverages multiple redundant sources of sensor data as well as human reporting 
  • Protects against sophisticated cyberattacks that corrupt devices and data ​​
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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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