Water quality needs cybersecurity
The water and waste water sector is critical for society, the economy as well as the health of people and the environment. The advancing digitization and process automation optimize operations, but also create new attack surfaces for cyber attacks as well as human error. The near-miss incident at the Oldsmar water utility in Florida, USA demonstrated how quickly water quality can be put at risk. Not only was it sheer luck that nothing worse happened. Because visibility into the OT was lacking, it also remained unclear for two (!) years whether the incident was a cyberattack or internal error.
At the same time, the water sector is struggling with a lack of skilled personnel for operational technology (OT) security, while policymakers and associations are expanding requirements for critical infrastructure.
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Reference LWW
Ensuring correct segmentation and closure of vulnerabilities at the Leipzig municipal water utility
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IEC 62443 White paper
Risk analysis and system security according to IEC 62443 with OT monitoring and anomaly detection
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IEC 61850 White paper
Establishing effective, cross-site OT security in system-integrated infrastructures according to IEC 61850
Simple and effective OT security for the water sector
Detect attacks on your operational technology network
With Rhebo, companies in the water and waste water sector can secure their industrial processes and infrastructures against professional, multi-stage cyber attacks in a targeted manner. We establish complete asset visibility in the OT, identify vulnerabilities, and detect cyber incidents in real time that could put the security, integrity, and availability of critical processes at risk.
Ensure legal and standard compliance
Rhebo solutions comply to and support the security requirements for a thorough security posture laid out in the NIS 2 Directive and specified in the various national legislations. With our OT monitoring, anomaly detection, and security services, we deliver simple, focused, and rapidly integrated solutions to meet the requirements for logging and detecting security-related events in OT, and to ensure rapid response to incidents.
Bridge the OT security resources gap
Rhebo supports its customers along the entire OT security lifecycle – from initial risk analysis, to integration and baselining, to managed OT monitoring with the Rhebo threat and intrusion detection. Thus, companies in the water and waste water sector can focus on their core business without losing sight of the security of their critical processes.
3 steps to intrusion detection in your OT
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Step 1: Risk analysis
Establish visibility and identify existing risks and vulnerabilities with the Rhebo Industrial Security Assessment
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Step 2: Intrusion detection
Integrate an industrial IDS with OT monitoring and anomaly detection with Rhebo Industrial Protector
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Step 3: Support
Bridge your OT security resource gap and tap into Rhebo’s long-standing expertise with Rhebo Managed Protection