Hello again all, it’s Steve, the Percy Hobart Fellowship member partnered with Awen. I promised in my last blog post that I would return to tell you how my adventure with Awen was going and here I am.
For the last week or so I have been working alongside Awen’s senior business solutions consultant James Sandrone, investigating different use cases for Dot and Profile, Awen’s two OT Resilience products, and how they can be applied across multiple industries. This has been a fascinating experience to date.
I know I have been surprised at the breadth of industries both large and small that require Operational Technology (OT) to maintain their operations and the wide ranging nature of the cyber threats facing such equipment.
Fortunately a lot of work is being done to address these threats and help secure businesses and national infrastructure with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) taking lead and offering a wealth of resources to read through to assess your requirements and what can be done to make an organisation safer.
Cyber companies such as Awen help put this advice into practice, in Awen’s case by utilising Profile to make navigating the cyber assessment framework (CAF) easier allowing your organisation to work through the framework to check that your processes are compliant with national legislation, such as the NIS.
Whilst Dot takes a more detailed approach analysing your existing OT equipment and showing the vulnerabilities and therefore risks to the assets connected on the network, whether this is Industrial Control Systems (ICS), SCADA, Industrial IoT or Smart Buildings.
One of the biggest things I am noticing is the strength of community within the Cyber world, the realisation that not one product or company has all the pieces to the complex problems faced with Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience but by working together and being aware of the threats the world can be made safer a piece at a time.
If you have any questions about Cyber resilience and what you can do to help, and to perhaps improve your own organisations resilience please do get in touch, one of the team here will be more than happy to help.
Meanwhile I’m off to another meeting with James and hope to share some more of my findings with you another week.