CyberX, the IoT and industrial control system (ICS) security company, has said that it had extended its agentless industrial cybersecurity platform to protect millions of unmanaged enterprise IoT devices such as routers, CCTV cameras, wireless access points, smart TVs, smart lighting, HVAC devices, wireless printers, sensors, and medical devices. The announcement was made at the recent Palo Alto Networks IGNITE ‘19 USA conference
According to a press release by the company, the new capability builds upon CyberX’s “deep expertise gained from continuously monitoring unmanaged IIoT and ICS devices for Global 2000 enterprises worldwide.” Some of CyberX clients include 2 of the top 5 US energy providers, a top 5 global pharmaceutical company, a top 5 US chemical company, and national electric and gas utilities across Europe and Asia-Pacific.
CyberX claims to offer “the only IoT security platform with patented M2M-aware behavioral analytics and machine learning technology.” By tightly integrating with existing IT security stacks (Splunk, IBM QRadar, ServiceNow, etc.), CyberX enables enterprises to leverage security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) approaches to protect massive numbers of IoT and ICS devices with reduced staffing resources. Additionally, CyberX’s cloud-based Cortex app for Palo Alto Networks, the first to enable zero-trust strategies for M2M networks, has also been extended to secure IoT devices.
By providing a unified approach for securing unmanaged devices — across both IT and OT — CyberX simplifies global deployments and reduces complexity, thereby decreasing cyber risk. The unified approach is also essential to mitigating enterprise-wide risk because OT cyberattacks often begin with attackers establishing a foothold in IT networks and subsequently pivoting to OT networks (or vice-versa), said the release.
The new IoT offering also leverages Horizon, the company’s recently announced Open Development Environment (ODE) enabling customers and partners to easily add support for new and proprietary protocols via plug-ins to the CyberX platform. Leveraging this global developer community enables CyberX to quickly scale its support for securing any IoT protocol, for any IoT device, anywhere.
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