Steel Manufacturer deals with ageing infra issues
For this steel major, the existing network was succumbing often due to heavy movement of vehicles, plant expansion and a few other reasons. An urgent need existed to upgrade their infrastructure to meet their growth plans and ensure that the systems are upgraded to meet the threats from Cyber attacks.
Challenges
The company sought a way to view, monitor and manage the security of its numerous production sites, each consisting of hundreds of assets, to proactively strengthen its industrial cybersecurity and more effectively manage the inherent risks.
- Lack of asset visibility
- Ageing infrastructure reliant on legacy technologies
- Increased security threat perception
The Solution
We conducted a series of workshops with key stake holders across the organization and provided solutions for the following
- Asset identification and anomaly detection
- Physical layer connectivity upgrade
- Active components deployment
- New network deployment architecture
- Network operations centre – 24X7
Outcomes
As a result of this consulting support from us, the customer got a thorough understanding of the gaps in their current infrastructure, the latest and greatest solutions from a technology and best practices perspective and the specific actions which are required to remediate them.