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Governments are responsible for keeping the critical infrastructure operational for their citizens, but they are also responsible for securing government-operated networks. In the US, published specifications like NIST 800-207 (Zero Trust Architecture), CISA’s Zero Trust Maturity Model 2.0, and the DoD Zero Trust Reference Architecture have helped government enterprises build secure networks.
The government sector runs Operational Technology (OT) networks like the commercial sector. Military bases and government facilities have power, water, and logistics infrastructure. Governments directly run water utilities, communications networks, national power grids, pipelines, and other OT infrastructures. Each agency responsible for that infrastructure must secure it per the relevant regulations and guidelines. These facilities are increasingly under attack by bad actors of all types.
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Protecting critical infrastructure in the water and wastewater sector ensures the continuous supply of safe drinking water, effective sewage treatment, and stormwater management. Cybersecurity protection is vital for public health, sanitation, and environmental protection, as disruptions could lead to waterborne diseases, ecological damage, and significant economic losses.
Learn more about how BlastShield helps water and wastewater utilities protect systems and prevent cyber attacks before they happen:
Ensuring the security of manufacturing infrastructure is crucial for the uninterrupted production of goods and services, job preservation, and economic stability. Protection of these assets reduces the risk of physical and cyber threats, maintaining the global supply chain and fostering innovation, competitiveness, and growth.
Learn more about how BlastShield helps manufacturers protect systems and prevent cyber attacks before they happen.
Safeguarding energy infrastructure is essential for reliable power generation, transmission, and distribution. As a backbone of modern society, disruptions in the energy sector could lead to widespread blackouts, economic losses, and threats to public safety. Enhanced security measures help minimize vulnerabilities and ensure a stable, resilient energy supply.
Learn more about how BlastShield helps energy companies protect systems and prevent cyber attacks before they happen.
Protecting critical infrastructure in the oil & gas industry is vital for maintaining a stable energy supply, as it contributes significantly to global energy production. Ensuring the security of these assets reduces the risk of disruptions, accidents, and environmental disasters. A resilient infrastructure supports economic growth and job creation while minimizing vulnerabilities to physical and cyber threats.
Learn more about how BlastShield helps oil & gas companies prevent cyber attacks before they happen.
Safeguarding data center infrastructure is essential for preserving digital information and services' integrity, availability, and confidentiality. Data centers support various industries, including finance, healthcare, and telecommunications, by storing and processing massive amounts of data. Ensuring the security of these facilities prevents downtime, data breaches, and financial losses, ultimately fostering trust, innovation, and technological advancement in the digital age.
Learn more about how BlastShield helps telecom and data center services providers prevent cyber attacks before they happen.
Protecting building management systems is crucial to maintain smart buildings' safe and efficient operation. These systems control critical functions like heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and access control. Ensuring their security prevents unauthorized access, data breaches, and operational disruptions, ultimately promoting occupant safety, resource conservation, and cost savings.
Learn more about how BlastShield helps protect building management systems and prevent cyber attacks before they happen.
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Robotic guards don’t get tired, distracted, or intimidated. They do the job of three guards simultaneously: monitoring cameras, confronting criminals, and immediately calling police.
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The water and wastewater sector is experiencing an increase in AI-powered cyber incidents, making it crucial for their operators to prioritize OT cybersecurity.
Lateral Movement: The predominant technique used for lateral movement is compromising administrator credentials to RDP servers. To quote the CISA advisory on a specific attack on the Water and Wastewater sector:
“In one confirmed compromise of a Water and Wastewater Systems Sector entity, after obtaining initial access, Volt Typhoon actors connected to the network via a VPN with administrator credentials they obtained and opened an RDP session with the same credentials to move laterally. Over a nine-month period, they moved laterally to a file server, a domain controller, an Oracle Management Server (OMS), and a VMware vCenter server. The actors obtained domain credentials from the domain controller and performed discovery, collection, and exfiltration on the file server (see the Discovery and Collection and Exfiltration sections). Volt Typhoon’s movement to the vCenter server was likely strategic for pre-positioning to OT assets. The vCenter server was adjacent to OT assets, and Volt Typhoon actors were observed interacting with the PuTTY application on the server by enumerating existing stored sessions. With this information, Volt Typhoon potentially had access to a range of critical PuTTY profiles, including those for water treatment plants, water wells, an electrical substation, OT systems, and network security devices. This would enable them to access these critical systems [T1563].”
Credential theft and poor network segmentation enabled the lateral movement. In the worst-case scenario, better Microsegmentation would have helped stop the hackers in their tracks.
From this analysis, you can see that bad actors like Volt Typhoon can be frustrated, and their common techniques are simply blocked from working on your network with the right OT Cybersecurity solution. BlastWave’s OT Cybersecurity solutions aim to frustrate and block attackers by protecting your network with a solution optimized for OT.
Protecting critical infrastructure in the water and wastewater sector ensures the continuous supply of safe drinking water, effective sewage treatment, and stormwater management. Cybersecurity protection is vital for public health, sanitation, and environmental protection, as disruptions could lead to waterborne diseases, ecological damage, and significant economic losses.
Learn more about how BlastShield helps water and wastewater utilities protect systems and prevent cyber attacks before they happen:
Ensuring the security of manufacturing infrastructure is crucial for the uninterrupted production of goods and services, job preservation, and economic stability. Protection of these assets reduces the risk of physical and cyber threats, maintaining the global supply chain and fostering innovation, competitiveness, and growth.
Learn more about how BlastShield helps manufacturers protect systems and prevent cyber attacks before they happen.
Safeguarding energy infrastructure is essential for reliable power generation, transmission, and distribution. As a backbone of modern society, disruptions in the energy sector could lead to widespread blackouts, economic losses, and threats to public safety. Enhanced security measures help minimize vulnerabilities and ensure a stable, resilient energy supply.
Learn more about how BlastShield helps energy companies protect systems and prevent cyber attacks before they happen.
Protecting critical infrastructure in the oil & gas industry is vital for maintaining a stable energy supply, as it contributes significantly to global energy production. Ensuring the security of these assets reduces the risk of disruptions, accidents, and environmental disasters. A resilient infrastructure supports economic growth and job creation while minimizing vulnerabilities to physical and cyber threats.
Learn more about how BlastShield helps oil & gas companies prevent cyber attacks before they happen.
Safeguarding data center infrastructure is essential for preserving digital information and services' integrity, availability, and confidentiality. Data centers support various industries, including finance, healthcare, and telecommunications, by storing and processing massive amounts of data. Ensuring the security of these facilities prevents downtime, data breaches, and financial losses, ultimately fostering trust, innovation, and technological advancement in the digital age.
Learn more about how BlastShield helps telecom and data center services providers prevent cyber attacks before they happen.
Protecting building management systems is crucial to maintain smart buildings' safe and efficient operation. These systems control critical functions like heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and access control. Ensuring their security prevents unauthorized access, data breaches, and operational disruptions, ultimately promoting occupant safety, resource conservation, and cost savings.
Learn more about how BlastShield helps protect building management systems and prevent cyber attacks before they happen.
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Network cloaking that makes devices undiscoverable and prevents lateral attacks
BlastShield uses a software-defined perimeter approach (SDP) that allows for granular access controls and avoids the risk of stolen credentials and complex management.
BlastShield™ is a secure private network solution that protects assets and data by making them invisible to everyone except authenticated users. Unlike SSL-VPN based solutions that have known exploits, BlastShield uses a patent-pending encrypted transport methodology that is immune to SSL-VPN exploits.
BlastShield™ Gateways (software instances) are placed in-line in front of assets you want to protect. Once the gateway is in place, only authorized authenticated BlastShield™ Users will be able to access the asset. BlastShield™ Agents are installed on the server you want to protect. Like the Gateway, once the Agent has been enabled, only authorized authenticated BlastShield™ Users will be able to access the asset. Access control to protected systems is controlled by policy.
You can remotely access a BlastShield™ network using your FIDO2 Compliant Key, or the BlastShield™ Authenticator app. Both methods are highly secure and eliminate common threats such as phishing, and lateral attacks.
BlastShield™ is very easy to deploy, and a small network can be up and running in minutes. If you want to learn how to deploy a BlastShield™ network you can view our Quick Start Guide.
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“Capwave transformed our fundraising preparation. I independently fine-tuned our materials before even sharing with our advisors leading to quick introductions. It’s like having a fundraising pro on speed dial. Best of all, our prep time for the next round was cut by 50%.
“The Capwave AI platform itself is an invaluable tool for founders to optimize funding and financial health. However, the opportunity to work directly with Charlotte and her team takes the experience to a whole new level. Her expertise, combined with her personalized approach, makes this a resource I highly recommend to any founder looking to scale effectively, attract investors, and make smarter financial decisions.
“My strategy session with Charlotte was super informative and impactful. She gave honest, unfiltered feedback on my pitch deck and raise strategy which is immensely refreshing as a first-time female founder. Her encouragement and support is encouraging and I feel much more prepared for my upcoming raise!
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“Complete Transformation—that’s what Capwave’s AI pitch deck analysis and Charlotte’s 1:1 training did for our fundraising strategy. I highly recommend this product and community to any founder raising capital.
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“The customized feedback on our pitch deck helped us refine our message and stand out to investors.
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“Startups that use Capwave AI are much easier to understand, helping me spot early-stage winners in the market.
“Capwave transformed our fundraising preparation. I independently fine-tuned our materials before even sharing with our advisors leading to quick introductions. It’s like having a fundraising pro on speed dial. Best of all, our prep time for the next round was cut by 50%.
“The Capwave AI platform itself is an invaluable tool for founders to optimize funding and financial health. However, the opportunity to work directly with Charlotte and her team takes the experience to a whole new level. Her expertise, combined with her personalized approach, makes this a resource I highly recommend to any founder looking to scale effectively, attract investors, and make smarter financial decisions.
“My strategy session with Charlotte was super informative and impactful. She gave honest, unfiltered feedback on my pitch deck and raise strategy which is immensely refreshing as a first-time female founder. Her encouragement and support is encouraging and I feel much more prepared for my upcoming raise!
“Complete Transformation—that’s what Capwave’s AI pitch deck analysis and Charlotte’s 1:1 training did for our fundraising strategy. I highly recommend this product and community to any founder raising capital.
“The customized feedback on our pitch deck helped us refine our message and stand out to investors.
“Startups that use Capwave AI are much easier to understand, helping me spot early-stage winners in the market.
“Capwave transformed our fundraising preparation. I independently fine-tuned our materials before even sharing with our advisors leading to quick introductions. It’s like having a fundraising pro on speed dial. Best of all, our prep time for the next round was cut by 50%.
“The Capwave AI platform itself is an invaluable tool for founders to optimize funding and financial health. However, the opportunity to work directly with Charlotte and her team takes the experience to a whole new level. Her expertise, combined with her personalized approach, makes this a resource I highly recommend to any founder looking to scale effectively, attract investors, and make smarter financial decisions.
“My strategy session with Charlotte was super informative and impactful. She gave honest, unfiltered feedback on my pitch deck and raise strategy which is immensely refreshing as a first-time female founder. Her encouragement and support is encouraging and I feel much more prepared for my upcoming raise!
“Complete Transformation—that’s what Capwave’s AI pitch deck analysis and Charlotte’s 1:1 training did for our fundraising strategy. I highly recommend this product and community to any founder raising capital.
“The customized feedback on our pitch deck helped us refine our message and stand out to investors.
“Startups that use Capwave AI are much easier to understand, helping me spot early-stage winners in the market.
“Capwave transformed our fundraising preparation. I independently fine-tuned our materials before even sharing with our advisors leading to quick introductions. It’s like having a fundraising pro on speed dial. Best of all, our prep time for the next round was cut by 50%.
“The Capwave AI platform itself is an invaluable tool for founders to optimize funding and financial health. However, the opportunity to work directly with Charlotte and her team takes the experience to a whole new level. Her expertise, combined with her personalized approach, makes this a resource I highly recommend to any founder looking to scale effectively, attract investors, and make smarter financial decisions.
“My strategy session with Charlotte was super informative and impactful. She gave honest, unfiltered feedback on my pitch deck and raise strategy which is immensely refreshing as a first-time female founder. Her encouragement and support is encouraging and I feel much more prepared for my upcoming raise!
“Complete Transformation—that’s what Capwave’s AI pitch deck analysis and Charlotte’s 1:1 training did for our fundraising strategy. I highly recommend this product and community to any founder raising capital.
“The customized feedback on our pitch deck helped us refine our message and stand out to investors.
“Startups that use Capwave AI are much easier to understand, helping me spot early-stage winners in the market.
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A world where OT networks operate securely, generating power, transporting water and wastewater, producing fuel, and manufacturing the goods and materials needed to supply modern society.
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