#019: Can your MTR do this?

Are your Manufacturing IT assets protected by state of the art Cybersecurity?

Industry 4.0 and "smart factories" are transforming the manufacturing industry. As drug and device manufacturers embrace digital transformation and IT/OT convergence, they are expanding their attack surface and increasing their risk of vulnerability exploitation, production sabotage, IP leakage, and other security issues. With such inherent vulnerabilities, GxP companies cannot comply with the FDA’s Data Integrity mandates.

xLM has partnered with Sophos to deliver Cybersecurity-as-a-Service backed by security specialists that monitor your IT environment 24/7/365. We detect and respond to cyberattacks targeting manufacturers' servers, industrial control systems, networks, cloud workloads, email accounts, and more. Our ContinuousMTR Cybersecurity-as-a-Service is geared to protect your company’s IT assets so that your business risk exposure is reduced while data integrity compliance is increased.

What can ContinuousMTR do?

Stop Ransomware Attacks and Data Breaches

ContinuousMTR Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is a fully managed 24/7/365 service delivered by experts that detect and respond to sophisticated cyberattacks that technology solutions alone cannot prevent.

ContinuousMTR meets you where you are. It's compatible with:

• Your existing security investments – we can use tools, third-party tools, or any combination of the two

• Your needs – whether you want full-scale incident response or help making accurate security decisions, we've got you covered

• Your industry – MDR secures hundreds of manufacturing organizations worldwide; we understand the industry's threats and are building "community immunity"
  
  

Secure Access to Your Critical Industrial Control Systems and Data

Lifescience companies need to adopt a zero-trust approach of "trust nothing, verify everything" to secure access to their critical infrastructure and proprietary information.

The Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution continuously validates user identity, device health, and compliance before granting access to your applications and data.

Endpoint and ZTNA work together to share status and health information to automatically prevent compromised hosts from connecting to your networked resources. They also prevent threats from moving laterally across your organization and getting a foothold on your network.

Our Secure Access portfolio allows you to connect your remote devices and branch offices, deliver critical cloud and SaaS applications, and securely share data.

It includes ZTNA to secure access to your applications, SD-RED remote Ethernet devices to safely extend your network to your remote devices and branch offices, Wireless access points for easy and secure wireless networking, and Switch network access layer switches for secure access on the LAN. Everything is managed through Central, which is an all-in-one cloud-based security platform.

Ensure Uninterrupted Availability Across Your Manufacturing Operations

• Proactively detect malicious behaviors on your hosts with intelligent threat protection from Intercept X, which combines deep learning, host intrusion prevention system (HIPS), anti-exploit, anti-adversary, and malicious traffic detection capabilities.
• Get protection that constantly learns and improves with the Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem (ACE), which enables various products to work together and automatically respond to threats and stop and clean them up in seconds.
• See the full cybersecurity picture with Extended Detection and Response (XDR), which integrates multiple data sources to give you a holistic view of your organization's cybersecurity environment and drills down into granular detail as needed.
• Get emergency support with active threats. Our team with our partner Sophos will help you quickly control an attack to protect your networks, applications, and data and mitigate damage and disruption.
• Identify risky users based on their recent web activity and threat and infection history so you can take appropriate action. A user's risk score can help you detect unintentional actions due to a lack of security awareness or a rogue or negligent user.
  
  

Protect Against Insider Attacks

Threats like exfiltration of proprietary data and modification of critical system data and processes can be catastrophic to drug and device manufacturers. ContinuousMTR helps you stop insider attacks and reduce risk across your organization.

User-Based Access and Controls

Promote user awareness across all areas of the firewall and user-based policy controls across your applications, websites, traffic shaping (QoS), and other network resources, regardless of the IP address, location, network, or device.

User Risk Visibility

User Threat Quotient (UTQ) provides actionable intelligence on user behaviors, with insights into the riskiest users and applications to ensure that your policies are enforced before your security is compromised.

Data Loss Prevention

Protect your sensitive data from accidental or malicious disclosure with complete policy control over your web categories, applications, removable media, and mobile devices.

Minimize the Risk of Supply Chain Attacks

Manufacturing supply chains are vast and complex. A vulnerability in any of a supplier’s networks can rapidly propagate to infect multiple suppliers and businesses. Our partner Sophos provides security technologies and services to mitigate the risk of supply chain attacks.

Intercept X with XDR

Use AI, anti-ransomware and other advanced technologies to defend against threats that can infiltrate your network via third-party suppliers. Plus, XDR functionality enables you to automatically identify suspicious activities, prioritize threat indicators, and quickly search for potential threats across your endpoints and servers.

Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

Get 24/7/365 expert support with over 500 Sophos specialists working around the clock to proactively hunt for, validate, and remediate potential supply chain threats and incidents on your behalf.

Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

Protect against supply chain attacks that rely on supplier access to your systems via granular access controls. This cloud-delivered solution validates user identities and device health and compliance before granting access to your resources. It authenticates requests from trusted partners, regardless of their location.

Secure Your Legacy Manufacturing Technology

You need to protect your legacy or unpatched manufacturing control systems and processes from known vulnerabilities. These devices often run out-of-date operating systems or browsers that can't be updated because they are no longer supported – yet they need to be connected to the network.

Firewall and SD-RED can help. Put SD-RED in front of an exposed device, and it tunnels traffic to a protective Firewall for scanning. If your network is flat, you will likely need to make changes to IP address schemes and possible switch topology – and our technical specialists can discuss your situation and show you how to do this.

Protect Your Data Across Your Multi-Cloud Manufacturing Environments

To power up smart factories, drug and device manufacturers are increasingly using cloud platforms and SaaS applications that need to be protected from threats. Cloud Native Security provides complete multi-cloud security coverage across your environments, workloads, and identities.

It protects your cloud infrastructure and data with flexible host and container workload security for Windows and Linux. Multi-layered technologies, including cloud-native behavioral and exploit runtime detections, protect against ransomware and other advanced attacks and identify threats such as container escapes, kernel exploits, and privilege-escalation attempts.

Cybersecurity Solutions for Manufacturing

• Cloud Optix: Easily identify cloud resource vulnerabilities, ensure compliance, and respond to threats faster.

  

• Intercept X Endpoint: Intercept X Endpoint delivers unparalleled protection, stopping advanced attacks before they impact your systems. Powerful EDR and XDR tools let your organization hunt for, investigate, and respond to suspicious activity and indicators of attack.

  

• Intercept X for Server: High-impact protection with low impact on performance for on-premise, data center, and cloud workloads.

  

   

• Synchronized Firewall Security: Your Firewall and Endpoint – Working Together. Firewall is part of the world’s best cybersecurity system, integrating in real time with Central and Intercept X.

• XDR: Unified XDR platform enables you to detect, investigate, and respond to multi-stage threats, across all key attack vectors, in the shortest time.

• MTR: Get cybersecurity delivered as a service with 24/7 ransomware and breach prevention services.

• Microsoft 365 Security: Many cyberattacks start with phishing. Email Security integrates with M365 email in minutes, protecting users faster, unlocking end-to-end visibility across your full M365 suite with XDR.

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