BlastShield™: AI-Resistant Zero Trust OT Security for Data Centers

BlastWave builds secure data center OT networks, protecting critical infrastructure like power, cooling, and environmental controls. It hides sensitive systems, ensures only authorized access with strong, passwordless security, and segments the network to contain breaches. This means less risk of disruptions, data loss, and costly downtime, ensuring your data center’s continuous and reliable operation.

BlastWave implements a true Zero Trust architecture, verifying every connection and enforcing least privilege access. Our solution is designed to ease deployment and management, minimizing disruption to existing data center operations. The system can also protect the back end of data center operations, securing administrator access into key infrastructure systems and devops access using BlastShield’s passwordless MFA for high security remote access.

With BlastWave, data center operators and facility managers cansignificantly enhance their OT security posture, protect their critical systems, and ensure their data center infrastructure’s reliable and secure operation. BlastWave delivers a number of key use cases for Data Center OT networks:

Enabling Secure Remote Access and Maintenance

• BlastShield ensures secure remote access for maintenance personnel and vendors to diagnose and repair data center infrastructure. Personnel are limited to access to only necessary systems and data, ensuring least privilege. This access can be time-bound as well, preventing abuse of access and providing more protection to critical systems.
• ‍

Securing Building Management Systems (BMS)

• Since integrated building management systems control all of the local OT systems, securing access to these systems is foundational for data center operators. These systems are an attractive target for hackers seeking to disrupt operations and plant ransomware, and are ideal to protect with zero trust access.

Securing Power Distribution Units (PDUs)

• Protecting heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems from unauthorized control and manipulation ensures comfortable, safe tenants. Ensuring that secure remote monitoring and maintenance of HVAC equipment is secure also minimizes downtime.

Securing Lighting Control Systems

• Power interruption are devastating to data centers. Protecting PDUs
  from unauthorized control, preventing power disruptions and equipment
  damage, and ensuring accurate monitoring are key use cases.

Securing Cooling Systems (CRAC, Chillers)

• Cloaking and passwordless MFA prevents malicious manipulation of cooling systems which could result in overheating and equipment damage, causing downtime and loss of revenue and capital equipment. It also ensures that the environmental monitoring systems are protected from in-flight data manipulation with encryption.

Securing Physical Security Systems

• Physical access control solutions (key card, biometric, etc.) need protection from cyberthreats and hacking to ensure that unauthorized access cannot be granted through electronic means. These systems are also often connected to video surveillance systems , which need protection from tampering and data theft, and require high performance solutions that cannot be delivered with proxy-based security solutions. The alarm systems also require cyber protection against bad actors, as false alarms can weaken security responses to valid intrusions.

Securing DevOps Access

• Developer access to data center infrastructure systems benefits from Zero Trust Access. Developers can be given access only to the systems they are assigned to work on, permissions can be location and time restricted, and credentials cannot be stolen by bad actors seeking to escalate privileges, laterally move, or to live off the land.

Segmentation and Microsegmentation

• Network segmentation is critical in a data center that shares physical and network infrastructure between customers, IT, and OT systems. Each logical infrastructure should have a zero trust barrier that ensures users cannot cross boundaries, preventing the spread of malware, ransomware, and breaches. BlastShield’s network cloaking and passwordless MFA create secure zones and conduits between the network segments, and microsegment within each zone to keep systems isolated from lateral movement by malicious insiders, hackers, and bad actors.
• BlastShield’s unique combination of AI-Resistant Network Cloaking, Phishing-Resistant Secure Remote Access, and Software Defined Segmentation ensures data centers can secure their networks in accordance with numerous industry-specific requirements and keep their infrastructure resilient and operational.

Zero Trust Architecture

• Implementing a Zero Trust architecture protects and secures legacy systems that cannot be patched, protects data from building sensors, protects the data collected from sensors that monitor temperature, humidity, occupancy, and other building conditions. BlastWave ensures that tenants are fully protected from cyberattacks and manipulation of safety and security systems that keep their business operational.

About BlastWave

BlastWave securely connects Industrial Control Systems, Operational Technology, and Critical Infrastructure networks with Zero Trust Protection and delivers industrial-grade cybersecurity with consumer-grade ease-of-use.

Download the Solutions Brief!

Understand how BlastShield™ offers a simple, effective, and cost-efficient way to protect water & wastewater systems.

Our Privacy Policy applies.