Since Stuxnet worm damage an Iranian nuclear site in 2009, the cyberattacks have constantly increased. New attacks regularly emerge, targeting all industries, from critical infrastructures to industrial processes. The consequence of these attacks could be dramatic and could have a huge impact on these industries as well as for the nation security. Also, this issue has become a matter of national security since the White Paper of Defense in 2008 and the French LPM 2013 (Military Programation Law).
In reaction, most of National Security Agencies reinforce the obligation to protect critical infrastructures. But, most of solutions are partial, unsatisfying and limited to Corporate IT cyber-solutions, such as firewalls, and authentications. Designed to protect mostly data stream, these services are unsuited to manage an industrial operation and instead bring obscurity on how they work, letting hackers benefiting from this grey zone.
There is a growing demand for new solutions, better fitted to Industrial Control Systems, targeting at providing insights of the ICS, understandable by the operators, managing the ICS data exchanges, helping to ensure operational continuity whatever the failures or intrusions could be.
Our CyPRES solution integrates all of these features and is expected to become a major product for most ICS – if not all – to ensure their robustness. CyPRES is a dedicated industrial network solution, IDS type (Industrial Detection System) that monitors communications to detect abnormalities. Upon detection it warns both automation expert (such as the operation team) and DSI to help them taking appropriate measures.
CyPRES project is supported by a consortium of two French SMEs expert in industrial automation, software development and cybersecurity. The offer will be a set of a product (mostly software) an engineering tools and method so as to implement CyPRES on new or existing ICS. The offer packaging is no yet finalized and may be of two finds: integrated solution or appliance, depending of the channel of sales. In both cases, CyPRES ambition is to set a new standard in IDS for Industrial Control System. That will be achieved by three main features:
- Simplicity of installation
- Quality of detection and ability to face even future (not known) threats
- Robustness and resistance to attacks.
