Defending Valuable Corporate IP From Cyber Espionage
CHALLENGE
Defending Valuable Corporate IP From Cyber Espionage
CHALLENGE
Keeping Trade Secrets and Formulas Confidential
In an environment of fierce competition over global market share, clinical trial results and manufacturing specifications can be just as valuable as patents and formulas.
In 2016, one of Europe’s largest pharmaceutical companies was the victim of IP theft. And, for more than a decade, the hacking group Winnti has been launching cyberattacks on pharma/healthcare and other industrial organizations. When activated, the malware program can find and send confidential corporate data back to the attackers.
Attacks can originate on the IT or OT side of the business, and spread throughout the pharma facility. For example, threat actors have found ways to compromise insecure OT systems connected to the IT infrastructure, to access valuable intellectual property.
To protect your competitive position and your reputation, it’s critical to keep product development plans, research findings and other confidential IP secrets well protected.
THE SOLUTION
A Comprehensive Approach to Detecting Cyber Risks and Threats
Nozomi Networks takes a multi-dimensional approach to identifying suspicious activity – whether it’s external or internal, accidental or intentional.
Through behavior-based anomaly detection and multiple types of signature and rules-based threat detection, the solution identifies unauthorized activity such as:
| Remote Access | Downloads |
| Log File Deletions | Controller Logic Changes |
| Configuration Changes | Edits to PLC Projects and more |
All threat detection results are correlated with operational context for detailed insight. For example, the solution checks baselines for network peculiarities such as VPN access and IP ranges assigned to known asset vendors. If activity occurs outside normal ranges, an alert is triggered.
When suspicious activity is identified, the solution sends high-priority alerts to pharma security and operations staff, who can then execute the incident response plan to contain or eradicate the threat.
The Nozomi Networks solution takes a multi-dimensional approach to detecting cyber risks and threats. It uses both threat signatures and anomaly detection to identify attacks in process, early stage advanced threats and cyber risks.
Advanced Cyber Threat & Risk Detection
Guardian delivers advanced OT and IoT threat detection capabilities that help you proactively identify unauthorized access to your OT/IoT network, and reduce forensic efforts and response time.
Threat Intelligence delivers ongoing OT and IoT threat and vulnerability intelligence to Guardian, making it easy to stay on top of the dynamic threat landscape in your pharma environment.
More Challenges
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Gaining Visibility into a Fragmented Supply Chain
Supply chain outsourcing and acquisitions make it hard to monitor and secure our production processes from end-to-end.
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Assessing Risk in My Manufacturing Environment
How will patching, misconfigurations or new OT/IoT security measures impact our production and standards compliance?
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Detecting Malware in My IT/OT Networks
To prevent malware from spreading throughout my plants, I need lightning fast threat and anomaly detection.
