Security Fused into the Network to Protect OT at Scale

As industrial digitization accelerates, the attack surface expands. To improve the security posture and enable active defense, industrial organizations need detailed, real-time visibility of all industrial assets. At the same time, provisioning secure remote access for vendors and staff is essential for troubleshooting and maintenance in OT environments.

Until now, addressing these needs often required deploying dedicated appliances and point solutions. For industrial organizations with numerous sites and thousands of assets, this "bolted-on" approach increases cost and complexity to unbearable levels. As a result, most OT security deployments only provide visibility to the higher levels of the industrial networks and rely on traditional VPN solutions that give broad network access. Both of these approaches deliver suboptimal security outcomes: incomplete OT asset visibility and an increase in remote access risk.

To help organizations gain comprehensive visibility of their industrial networks and enforce zero-trust OT remote access, Cisco is announcing major updates to its OT security offering.

Secure Your OT Network with Your Industrial Switch

We are now packaging our two core OT security solutions - Cisco Cyber Vision for OT visibility and Secure Equipment Access (SEA) for OT remote access - into a single offering under Cyber Vision. For every Cyber Vision license you purchase, you automatically receive an equivalent SEA license at no additional cost.

We are taking this integrated solution a step further by making it a standard feature of our Cisco IE3500 Rugged Series and Cisco IE9300 Rugged Series Switches. This helps industrial organizations kick-start their OT security projects cost effectively as they are modernizing their OT networks with Cisco's Industrial Ethernet switches.

By making advanced OT security a standard feature in selected industrial network switches, Cisco is laying the foundation for a modern, zero-trust OT network architecture in ways that were previously not available. Here is how:

• Cisco Cyber Vision: Cisco's OT security solution inventories all connected assets, maps their communication activities, and provides detailed visibility into your OT security posture. Cyber Vision is embedded in your networking equipment to deliver unmatched visibility, even at the lowest levels of the Purdue model, eliminating the need for dedicated appliance or SPAN collection networks.
• Cisco Secure Equipment Access (SEA): A purpose-built, self-service remote access solution for OT teams. It enforces least-privilege zero-trust policies, granting users access to specific assets only. This is a major improvement over traditional VPNs which are ill-suited for OT environments as they often provide overly broad network access and require advanced IT skills to be managed properly.

Modernize and secure your industrial network today

With Cisco's latest OT security offering you can strengthen your OT security posture and upgrade your network with one integrated solution. When you purchase any Cisco IE3500 Rugged Series or Cisco IE9300 Rugged Series switch with a Network Advantage license, you will receive the following at no additional cost:

• A 3-year license for Cisco Cyber Vision for 24 endpoints.
• A 3-year license for Cisco Secure Equipment Access for 24 endpoints.
• Additional endpoints can be purchased separately as your needs scale.

By removingupfront cost barriers to adopting OT security tools, you can start building a secure and highly scalable foundation for your industrial network and move your digitization projects forward with greater confidence.

Final word

With Cisco's integrated OT security solution, modernizing your industrial network becomes a strategic step toward safeguarding operations. By selecting networking infrastructure with zero-trust securityfused into it, you can simplify fragmented approaches and strengthen your industrial cybersecurity posture- all while supporting both performance and securityin a single solution.

Resources

• New Secure Industrial Networking solution
• Cisco IE3500 Rugged Series switches
• Cisco IE9300 Rugged Series switches
• Cisco Cyber Vision
• Cisco Secure Equipment Access

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