Team Defence Information - Support Chain and Digital Seminar 2020 (SCDS20)
Modernisation and Digital Transformation are key to ensuring our military, and wider defence & security sectors, remain prepared and able to deliver effective, resilient, global operations well into the future. Cyber security is one of the key areas being hotly debated, and Operational Technology Cyber Security is also a major concern for these sectors.
Awen Collective will be virtually exhibiting at the Support Chain and Digital Seminar 2020 (SCDS20), an event jointly organised by Team Defence Information and UK MOD. The event will be held virtually across two days in September and will focus in on “Digital Support in Defence.'“
To find out more details on the TDI website - click here
To prepare for the event we have produced a blog post about the value of Dot to the defence & security sectors:
Dot for Defence & Security - What and How?
Dot is a software product which provides an in-depth understanding of the Operational Technology (OT) assets and their vulnerabilities, in a way that is automated but still safety and security critical.
Defence, like many other industrial sectors, want to see efficiencies in their automation systems. For this reason, they are investing in newer supervisory and data analysis systems (Industry 4.0) which connect existing Operational Technology (OT) networks with Information Technology (IT) networks and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) networks.
Defence and security have a whole range of different Operational Technologies in different places. From key card physical access systems, to weapons systems, to Heating Ventilation & Air Conditioning (HVAC), to control systems on planes and ships and much much more. Essentially anywhere which has (networks of) sensors and actuators with some control in the middle - that’s what is in scope!
Unfortunately, this opens up the OT network to increased threat of cyber attack. If disruption were to occur on OT systems, then operational continuity could slow down to a complete halt and the safety and security of the operators and engineers could be at risk.
Dot focuses purely on reducing risk and increasing resilience before a cyber incident
We take a forensic perspective, in that we gather as much detail as we can on assets and cyber vulnerabilities that we can, in order to give the best actionable intelligence to the user
Dot has the flexibility for any industrial environment. It can be used on-premise or in the cloud, and it can be used either with live feeds of data, or with snapshots (packet captures - "pcaps") of archived network traffic
Dot is engineering friendly with both unobtrusive passive scanning and safety-critical active scanning
Dot currently has support for Modbus, Siemens S7, DNP-3, Ethernet-IP and many more protocols and devices.
Awen is an award winning Welsh Cyber Security Software company focusing specifically on industrial systems (i.e. acronyms such as OT, ICS, SCADA, IIoT, BACS etc.). We develop everything ourselves in-house in Wales, and are a small but very innovative team who deeply understands the need for Security-by-Design. Our Dot software has been the subject of a MOD DSTL DASA project called Project Domino (2019-2020), and has been tested and extended specifically for the defence & security sectors.
Contact us today for further information.