Utilities, Power, & Energy

In light of the events of September 11th, 2001 and the Northeast blackout of 2003, the US and Canadian governments leverage standards established by the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) for protecting and regulating cyber-security for the electric sector. The specific NERC standards that ensure Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) for electric utilities and power generators in North America include:

CIP-002 Critical Cyber Assets CIP-003 Security Management Controls CIP-004 Personnel and Training CIP-005 Electronic Security

CIP-006 Physical Security CIP-007 Systems Security Management CIP-008 Incident Reporting and Response Planning CIP-009 Recovery Plans

These standards are designed to protect utility, power, and energy companies against targeted threats as well as the ubiquitous threats of worms and viruses by mandating them to take specific countermeasures to protect their DCS and SCADA systems, which are essential to the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity. Companies must seek proven solutions to achieve compliance and protection. They turn to BT Counterpane for proactive monitoring and reporting of their real-time control environments.

Why BT Counterpane's Cyber-Security Monitoring?

Real Time Control Environment

BT Counterpane and Verano have partnered to offer an industry-specific Cyber-Security Monitoring Service to protect systems against unauthorized access, changes, and exploits of vulnerabilities in our clients' control environments. The partnership integrates Verano's Industrial Defender® into BT Counterpane's Managed Security Monitoring Service, providing customers with 24x7 proactive and consistent monitoring and reporting of real-time control environments.

This solution allows for around-the-clock analysis of network and system events in real-time, providing the ultimate in security, thus reducing risk and unnecessary liability exposures, at a reduced cost. It provides a solid foundation to customers' NERC and FERC initiatives.

Key Benefits

	Safeguard Control Systems and Networks -- Provide protection without sacrificing performance by using Verano's Industrial Defender and BT Counterpane's monitoring capabilities.
	Comply with Security Standards Implemented by NERC CIP through Customized Reporting and Intrusion Detection Systems.
	Enable Operations to Focus on Critical Asset Availability -- BT Counterpane receives, monitors, and takes action on logs and alerts generated from Verano's Industrial Defender (24X7X365), delivering a rapid response to emerging risks.
	Enable Customers to Provide a Uniform Security Offering Across both the Corporate and Control Network: Ability to insert alerts from Industrial Defender into broader security monitoring posture via BT Counterpane Managed Security Monitoring. Correlation of security events across critical cyber and security assets.

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