OT cybersecurity assessments conducted
global auto manufacturers OT cybersecurity programs supported
experienced OT cybersecurity practitioners
critical infrastructure sectors supported
Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP) and GIAC Response and Industrial Defense (GRID) certification holders
Incorporating zero trust (ZT) principles into OT strengthens your cybersecurity posture. OT systems require maximum uptime and are often fragile, so we take a practical approach to applying ZT solutions in an OT environment. We use zero trust to counter new threat vectors through our ability to secure closest to the data. With our experience on both commercial and federal OT networks, we apply ZT to our OT cybersecurity architecture in a way that isolates networks, strengthens detection capabilities, and enhances security for devices.
Protecting cyber-physical systems, identifying relevant vulnerabilities, and devising effective mitigations is not as straightforward as protecting IT assets. There are many cyber-physical systems with specialized protocols designed for a wide range of niche missions and operations. Securing this technology requires subject matter experts with in-depth knowledge of the systems and client missions.
Networked assets (physical or virtual) and facilities that underpin and sustain U.S. military forces and operations worldwide are called defense critical infrastructure (DCI). Examples include dams, radars, weapon systems, satellite communications, nuclear reactors, and other facilities—if they’re critical to DOD’s mission to deter war and ensure national security, they’re DCI. Booz Allen is focused on protecting DCI. We’re leaders in developing and fielding OT cybersecurity and ZT for OT.
OT environments blend digital and physical capabilities to perform vital work, requiring specialized tools and expertise. Booz Allen ensures these environments are protected from advanced threats without impacting their reliability, productivity, or safety. We work with business clients throughout their OT cybersecurity journey, from assessments and strategy development to engineering, remediation, and threat detection.
Booz Allen’s tailored solutions enable enterprise-wide cyber threat detection analytics that are vendor and technology agnostic. In addition, we partner with industry-leading, reputable solutions providers to implement innovative security solutions for our clients. Booz Allen has implemented anomaly and threat detection solutions across the most challenging and unique OT networks, including large enterprise IT, OT/ICS enclaves, and fleet/weapon system maintenance networks. Our approach to threat detection is extensible enough to incorporate current-state environments.
Our OT/ICS SOC-as-a-Service (SOCaaS) offering consists of a team of trained cybersecurity practitioners focused on identifying and responding to active and emerging threats. Additionally, the SOC is a critical part of the overall cybersecurity strategy because it helps lower the adversarial dwell time and, if implemented correctly, reduces the potential for attacks to cause harm. Booz Allen is an industry leader for managed SOC services, recently recognized by Frost & Sullivan as market leader for the Global Managed Detection and Response market. For DOD clients, we tailor our SOC requirements to the More Situational Awareness for Industrial Control Systems (MOSAICS) framework where applicable.
Our technology platform uses advanced and secure software tools to provide a high-fidelity, all-in-one testbed for cyber-physical systems. The platform provides functionality to emulate hardware in a virtual environment, integrate the hardware for hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) testing, rapidly network physical and simulated assets, record data flow at the software level for security analysis, and consume test plans and requirements.
Production OT/ICS environments contain a variety of specialized equipment and software and often face strict engineering and change control processes. We enable testing of software and hardware components to ensure that patching security vulnerabilities doesn’t break functionality or expand the attack surface. By mirroring these technologies in our labs, we're able to replicate real-world environments to:
Modernizing OT involves integrating its systems with IT and advanced cyber technologies to boost efficiency, security, and data management. Traditionally, OT systems were isolated for reliability and security. The convergence of OT with IT enables real-time data access, predictive maintenance, and better decision making, but introduces cybersecurity risks. Our experts have worked with federal agencies to assess and deliver solutions, ensuring a secure, modernized OT/IT network that meets the critical needs of their missions.
Our dedicated incident response team handles the most complex and significant breaches for the Fortune 500 and Global 2,000, while applying the same expertise to the middle market. Our Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) team works with a wide array of organizations globally to identify, contain, eradicate, and investigate actual or suspected cybersecurity intrusions. Through our ability to rapidly deploy highly experienced personnel, we help minimize business disruption by leveraging capabilities that span the entire incident response lifecycle.
We help clients understand the critical mission components of weapon and space systems through the lens of cybersecurity. This enables programs to implement a cyber mitigation strategy that addresses system dependencies and hardens weapon or space system components. Through MBCRA and a system-of-systems approach, programs can ensure an effective defense-in-depth strategy and protect critical infrastructure and weapon and space systems by remediating high-risk vulnerabilities, implementing detection mechanisms, and compensating controls to enable mission success.
