Protecting Critical Infrastructure
Defending Essential Services with Consulting on Risk, Readiness and Incident Response
From its founding, Pratum has worked with water utilities, electrical grid organizations, transportation firms and others to prevent service disruptions and risks to citizens. Our consultants lead state and local officials, as well as private leadership teams, through information security risk assessments, penetration tests, incident response exercises and more to prepare their systems to continuously deliver essential services in all 16 critical infrastructure sectors.
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We Answer Your Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Questions
Attacks on our nation’s critical infrastructure are growing in frequency and severity. Systems heavily connected to the internet have vastly improved visibility—and increased the attack surface. Pratum helps leaders understand their risks’ impact and likelihood; prepare appropriate responses; and continually test the team’s readiness. We’ll address key questions, including:
- Which frameworks and laws apply to our situation?
- Who should be on our incident response team?
- Which data breach notification laws apply to us?
- How can we track and secure every device on our network, including IoT?
- What kinds of regular testing will confirm our cybersecurity readiness?
- Are there gaps in our policies and procedures?
- Do we have a solid change management policy?
- Do we have the right cyber insurance coverage?
- Do our employees understand their role in cybersecurity?
Pratum has provided valuable insight to assist all 99 counties with setting up the necessary action steps to deal with any problem that might occur.
Paul Pate Iowa Secretary of State
Information Security Services for Critical Infrastructure Organizations
- Virtual CISO - Security Leadership, Guidance, and Implementation
- Risk Assessments and IT Audits
- Information Security Policy Development and Review
- Penetration Testing and Vulernability Scanning
- Social Engineering Testing (phishing emails and unauthorized facility access attempts)
- Breach Investigation and Incident Response
- Continuous Monitoring with Managed Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
Key Factors in Critical Infrastructure Security
With our nation’s physical and economic well-being on the line, you can’t afford downtime in your operations. Pratum helps organizations build confidence in these key areas:
Framework Obligations
We’ll ensure you’re meeting your requirements under NIST, NERC CIP, executive orders and other frameworks.
SCADA
Attackers frequently target Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems in efforts to take down essential utilities.
Industrial Control Systems (ICS)
The tools at the heart of managing infrastructure operations represent a prime target.
Operational Technology
OT requires careful risk analysis since the components typically aren’t upgraded as regularly as IT components.
APT Attackers
Foreign enemies increasingly use Advanced Persistent Threat hacker techniques to target America’s essential services.
Cost-effective Compliance
Pratum consultants use their deep experience to identify cost-effective ways to meet your obligations.
Business Impact
By detecting attempted infiltrations, a mature security program helps prevent data loss, service interruption and legal exposure.
Efficiency
Services such as risk assessments and IT audits help your team understand its environment and effectively manage activities such as employee onboarding/offboarding, software updates, etc
Ongoing Monitoring
A multilayered defense requires XDR/EDR tools that recognize malicious activities in real time.
Critical Infrastructure Additional Resources
Power Grid Cybersecurity: New Rules to Protect Critical Infrastructure
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The Smart Power Grid, Part 1: Risks & Rewards
10 Most Common Information Security Risks
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Cybersecurity Guidance for Critical Infrastructure
