BAE Systems Detica announced the launch of IndustrialProtect, a military-grade solution, to the marketplace. The solution is designed to protect industrial control systems of critical infrastructures from cyber attack.

The IndustrialProtect solution applies to the defense, energy, utilities and natural resources sectors, where industrial control systems are integral to their efficiency, growth and productivity. All these organizations form part of the national critical infrastructure, a prime target for cyber attacks.

IndustrialProtect verifies the identity of the individual or system sending information, that the information is received is as it was sent and also that the content is intended and appropriate for the receiving system. Critical systems are thereby protected from access, manipulation and control by those intending to carry out harm through disruption and sabotage. 

Unlike many security enforcement solutions, IndustrialProtect is custom-designed from a basic component level and built in hardware by a security-approved supply chain. It therefore provides higher performance, reliability and security, particularly when compared to solutions based on mainstream software components.

IndustrialProtect achieves this through five key features:

Implementation of network segmentation without breaking critical business process;

Prevention of unauthorized systems from exchanging information;

Assurance that the integrity of information is preserved from source to destination;

Transparency to existing systems and a very low attack surface; and

Full remote management from the industrial control system and back to the system.