Cyber Incident Response and Recovery

Attacks and breaches happen. Prepare ahead to minimize downtime.

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During security breaches, incident response readiness strongly determines how much damage, downtime and cost an organization eventually bears. Every second counts. Preparation can let you gain control again quickly.

Rockwell Automation uses proven cybersecurity incident response tools and processes, based on proven frameworks and standards such as National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and International Society of Automation (ISA), to help you respond to and recover from breaches quickly. With 24/7 threat monitoring and managed security services for incident response, we can help keep breach incidents from escalating into avoidable disasters.

Recovery Lessons from the Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack

A solid backup and a recovery program helps restore operations quickly

The ransomware attack that shut down the Colonial Pipeline on May 7, 2021, is considered the most impactful cyberattack against U.S. Critical Infrastructure to date. But it’s not the only one.

Rockwell Automation spoke with Grant Geyer, chief product officer at Claroty - a leading industrial cybersecurity firm and a Rockwell Automation Digital Partner - to learn from the Colonial Pipeline incident and others. How did the attacks happen? How did each organization recover? What were some of the far-reaching effects?

One key recovery practice all industrial organizations must adopt: a mature data backup program, one that includes cybersecurity protections to help avoid encryption by ransomware.

Response and Recovery Lessons from Major Cyberattacks

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Response and Recovery Lessons from Major Cyberattacks

An effective data breach incident response plan emphasizes roles, responsibilities, and actions, and calls for tabletop practice and specific data backup processes to restore operations quickly.

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Rapid Response is Critical to Avoiding Extended Downtime

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Rapid Response is Critical to Avoiding Extended Downtime

Putting proven response and recovery programs in place is one way Rockwell Automation helps you avoid preventable downtime, shoring up your ability to restore normal operations quickly.

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The Value of Incident Response Tabletop Exercises

Rehearse your plan to gain speed and confidence

Practicing your OT incident response plan is an important step. Incident response tabletop exercises help your team practice roles, responsibilities and actions, discover unanswered questions, and gain more speed and confidence in what it takes to respond to a breach.

A frequently seen scenario in industrial organizations is the lack of clarity around ownership of incident response actions. There’s often confusion regarding IT or OT taking certain steps. This confusion, if not clearly addressed and defined ahead of an incident, can waste precious time if there is a breach, and allow malware to propagate farther with increasing damage.

Rockwell Automation can create and guide tabletop exercises for your team, using various attack scenarios that enable incident response teams put plans to the test - and increase team skills along the way.

Take a Closer Look at Cybersecurity Hygiene

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The potential impact of a cyberattack to a life sciences company is complex. Highly critical intellectual property and patient information, production delays or lost batches of high-cost product, and even brand reputation are on the line.

The ROI of effective cybersecurity is found in avoiding risks of downtime and damage from a breach, but also in minimizing the risks of negative impact on company valuation and overall bottom line. Remember the $310 million lost by one pharmaceutical company due to NotPetya?

No organization is immune. As operational technology evolves, so do vulnerabilities, and so must cybersecurity. Preparation and ongoing vigilance is required and a well-rehearsed incident response and recovery plan is crucial to staying safe

Cybersecurity Backup and Recovery Plans in Life Sciences

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Cybersecurity Backup and Recovery Plans in Life Sciences

Effective response and recovery plans, along with incident response training, can help secure production and can mean the difference between hours or months of downtime.

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Contact a Rockwell Automation Cybersecurity Specialist