Consulting for Energy: OT Security, Compliance, and Operations Data
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NERC CIP compliance is an evidence problem as much as a security problem. We scope BES cyber systems, write the policies and baselines the standards call for, and build the evidence trail an audit will test. The goal is a program that still holds up between audit cycles.
In an operational network, availability is a safety property, and security work has to be sequenced around it. We design segmentation between corporate IT and the ICS and SCADA environment, tighten the vendor remote access paths that keep showing up in incident reports, and test changes in ways plant operations can tolerate.
Pipeline operators carry TSA security directives with their own reporting clocks, and we build the plans and exercises those require. Incident response gets rehearsed against operational scenarios, where the first question is what keeps running. And we build data platforms that put field operations data in front of the people dispatching crews.
BD Emerson, with its deep expertise in cybersecurity and compliance, partnered with the energy organization to navigate the intricacies of the Zero Trust Architecture: