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SecureSmart™ continuous monitoring as a service (CMaaS)​

Integrated, real-time cyber defense for critical infrastructure, field area networks, energy systems and smart cities

​SecureSmart is an integrated cybersecurity, operations and engineering solution which delivers comprehensive continuous monitoring as a service (CMaaS) for utilities via an easy to deploy, sensor-based architecture. Leveraging independent and non-intrusive, scalable technology, SecureSmart protects advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), distributed automation (DA) systems, wireless field area networks (FAN), and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. SecureSmart provides real-time network health, anomaly detection, security monitoring, analysis, troubleshooting and visualization to detect intrusions and deliver cyber defense.  ​
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Why utilities need SecureSmart

Our nation’s critical infrastructure—power, gas, oil, water, waste treatment and transportation—is attacked daily by malicious hackers and adversaries who create, uncover and exploit vulnerabilities. To prioritize mitigations and ensure safe service delivery, utilities, operators and municipal agencies require real-time information on network health and security status along with actionable intelligence on threats.  

AMI and DA field area networks are utilities’ largest, most complex—and often least understood—networks. These networks are especially vulnerable because they are in unprotected environments and typically have little real-time visibility, performance monitoring or behavioral baselines. Diagnosing and troubleshooting service problems can take hours as traditional IT security tools lack context and are not sufficient to address the increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.  

Using an independent, probe-based architecture combined with comprehensive real-time continuous analysis, SecureSmart provides 24/7 automated network anomaly and intrusion detection for these critical networks. Our technology is being used by smart grid utilities from coast-to-coast to assess vulnerabilities, monitor and detect traffic anomalies and quickly scrutinize relevant data to determine “ground-truth” network health.  
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How it works

Our flagship offering—SecureSmart CMaaS—is a managed service using patented wireless field probe and wired network sensor technology to provide real-time network health monitoring, anomaly detection, threat analysis and visualization of AMI, DA and smart city infrastructure. CMaaS also provides grid state consistency analysis, network mapping and visualization of substation energy controllers and protective systems. 

SecureSmart detects early warning of anomalous behavior and can dynamically identify intrusions in wireless networks. Daily assessments and diagnostics are provided by a seasoned threat analysis team. SecureSmart delivers significantly increased security, operational visibility, situational awareness and continuous feedback at levels previously unavailable to the industry. 

Our SecureSmart solution has been designated a 2019 Cyber Catalyst℠ solution. SecureSmart is part of a select group of 17 solutions that reduce cyber risk as well as delivering meaningful metrics, viability, efficiency, flexibility and differentiation.   ​
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Features

  • Deep packet inspection: proprietary and standards-based protocol decomposition from physical through application layers  
  • Traffic profiling: real-time dashboard of key traffic performance indicators for AMI / DA and SCADA network health, and the capability to aggregate data across multiple substations and provide drill-down to anomalous sites  
  • Telemetry profiling: analyzes SCADA data in a time series fashion based on traffic monitoring through out-of-band means  
  • Network analytics and visualization tools: software tools and GUI to construct and display logical and GIS-based connectivity and routing maps, provide situational awareness, actionable intelligence and continuous feedback  
  • Wireless mesh and SCADA intrusion detection: integrated, energy-specific analysis engine, parallel multimode analysis, real-world vulnerability analytics, customized triggers, processing rules, signatures and reporting rules  
  • SCADA active protection: automated, real-time SCADA protection through stateful, model-based checkers that match protocol session content against protocol behavior rules to stop intrusions before they propagate  
  • Power analytics: smart analytics to validate real-time SCADA telemetry with circuit topology to rapidly identify misreporting, configuration errors or infected devices and the nature of an attack  
  • Network state evaluator: visualizes protocol flows and “diff” changes in the network through out-of-band SCADA to provide black start situational awareness  
  • Security services: security program assessments, vulnerability assessment / penetration testing, supply chain integrity, policy and security architecture development, threat analysis, compliance and end-to-end cybersecurity operations center management ​
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Advantages

  • Real-time, 24/7, sensor-based monitoring, with early warning notification and actionable intelligence 
  • Superior risk identification, vulnerability analysis and response to threats 
  • Protects the integrity of meter-to-cash process   
  • Daily assessments and diagnostics by a seasoned threat analysis team 
  • Continuous validation of wireless cybersecurity controls 
  • Deep packet inspection 
  • Troubleshoots and tunes field network performance with enriched field diagnostics 
  • Improves service assurance and key service metrics, such as Customer Average Interruption Duration Index (CAIDI) and System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI)  
  • Elevates security posture and compliance with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards ​
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SecureSmart™ solution line:​
  • ​Cyber emissions monitor: anomaly detection based on non-intrusive monitoring of unintentional RF emissions
  • EnergyDefender: comprehensive critical infrastructure and industrial control systems defense
  • 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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