Electric Power
When it comes to cybersecurity for electric power, all aspects of the electrical power industry are considered critical infrastructures. Any unplanned outages are not only costly, but potentially a threat to public safety.
Even worse, cyber sabotage has the potential to put worker safety at risk, trigger toxic discharges and damage long-lead-time turbines, high-voltage transformers and other equipment.
Waterfall protects OT systems for electric power generation, including conventional generation, nuclear generation, power transmission, power distribution, and control centers.
With Waterfall you get
Safe IT/OT Integration
Unidirectional Gateways provide business automation with access to OT / industrial data, without providing attackers or malware access to the industrial systems that are the sources of that data.
Safe Security Monitoring
Unidirectional Gateways provide enterprise and out-sourced Security Operations Centers (SOCs) with safe access to industrial network data,
so generating utilities can leverage specialized expertise and economies of scale.
Secure Remote Access
Waterfall’s HERA® , Hardware-Enforced Remote Access, provides the functionality of remote access, without the inherent risks and threats that come with network connectivity.
Use cases
Business Automation
Undirectional Gateways replicate historians, databases, OPC servers and more to business networks. Business users and applications use the replicas normally – because all of the data that is allowed to be shared with IT networks is in the replica servers already.
Remote Access
Hardware Enforced Remote Access (HERA® ) enables remote management, updates, and troubleshooting for OT networks, safely. When software-based secure remote access is too great a risk, HERA® ‘s hardware provides remote functionality without the risks of remote connectivity.
High-Voltage Substations
Unidirectional Gateways forward DNP3, IEC 60870-104, IEC 61850 and other status and fault information promptly to SCADA systems and engineering teams, while providing unbreachable, engineering-grade protection for protective relay networks.
TSO's & Balancing Authorities
Unidirectional Gateways replicate grid authority Energy Management Systems (EMS’s) to partners, and partner EMS’s in to the protected EMS, providing stronger-than-firewall protection from the propagation of malware and other attacks
Distribution Systems
Unidirectional Gateways replicate Distribution Management System (DMS), OPC, historian and other SCADA system data to Outage Management System and business networks, enabling prompt outage diagnosis and other business efficiencies, without exposing sensitive DMS automation to external tampering.
Turbine Monitoring
Unidirectional Gateways safely replicate GE OSM, Siemens and other turbine vibration and status information to the turbine vendors, and those vendors can carry out occasional turbine adjustments using unidirectional Remote Screen View or Secure Bypass capabilities.
How it works
Connect
An industrial network safely to an IT network
Protect
The industrial network with hardware enforced technology
Replicate
Real-time operational servers to the enterprise IT network
Related resources
Why I Wrote Power Generation OT Security: Applying and Interpreting ISA/IEC 62443 Standards
eBook: Cybersecurity in Power Generation – Applying and Interpreting ISA/IEC 62443 Standards
