Cybersecurity challenges facing the utilities industry
Recent cyberattacks on utility companies have revealed the growing vulnerability of the industry’s IT infrastructure.
- Compliance and security audits possibly resulting in substantial fines
- Cybersecurity risks and threats
- End user experience (UX)
- Limited scalability of the solution
- Difficulty of administration
- Sufficiently protecting the data center Electronic Security Perimeter (ESP) boundary
- Restricting access to applications
- Restricting access to NERC assets
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The DynTek + Citrix Utilities Cybersecurity Service
DynTek helps you address these issues by upgrading your grid infrastructure and initiating a digital transformation program that enables highly secure remote access. DynTek leverages secure, highly available Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) (formerly known as XenApp and XenDesktop) and Application Delivery Controller (ADC) (formerly known as Citrix NetScaler) solutions for NERC production to upgrade utility grid infrastructures to the highest level of security possible.
The DynTek Utilities Cybersecurity service provides you with both NERC and non-NERC applications hosted on segmented networks and session hosts. This same solution provides non-NERC resources to your authenticated users while maintaining high-level security of the NERC infrastructure.
In addition to providing secure remote access, DynTek and Citrix help you realize additional benefits by consolidating datacenters using Citrix ADCs and consolidated load balancing that enhances remote work productivity by providing a reliable connection and always-on availability.
The DynTek Utilities Cybersecurity service provides you with high availability thanks to a seamless failover capability that enables reliable disaster recovery and business continuity.
Key Benefits
- Remote access that balances user experience with uncompromised security
- Greater agility and speed to streamline application delivery
- Heightened security that meets or exceeds all industry and governmental audit requirements.
- Better access control since users are limited only to the applications required for their specific jobs.
- Best-in-class security across a completely different Electronics Security Parameter.
- Peace of mind knowing that their grid is secure and protected against the growing threat of cyberattacks.
DynTek Utilities Cybersecurity Service Success Story
A major utility company chose DynTek to modernize their grid IT infrastructure. DynTek designed, built, and deployed an entirely new Citrix-based grid that secured the company’s highly sensitive NERC data center, yet enabled secure remote user access for non-NERC applications. As a result, the company had a modernized NERC-CIP compliant data center that provided high levels of protection, while providing secure remote access for authorized users. The organization subsequently went through two separate security audits with zero findings!
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